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The breadth of a foot; -- used as a measure. Longfellow. Not so much as a footbreadth. Deut. ii. 5.

A stupid fellow; a fogy. [Colloq.]

A stupid or insignaficant fellow; a fool; a simpleton. [R.] Hudibras.

ndation, to be entitled to a support from the proceeds of an endowment, as a scholar or a fellow of a college.

A trickly fellow; a cheat. [Obs.] Evelyn. Denham.

A despicable fellow. [Prov. Eng.] Brockett.

A sly, cunning fellow. [Colloq.] We call a crafty and cruel man a fox. Beattie.

Brother; -- a title of a monk of friar; as, Fra Angelo. Longfellow.

A paramour; a loose woman; also, a gay, idle fellow. [Obs.] Spenser.

To fraternize; to hold fellowship. Jefferson.

To associate or hold fellowship as brothers, or as men of like occupation or character; to have brotherly feelings.

sudden inundation. Cracked the sky, as ice in rivers When the freshet is at highest. Longfellow.

A frivolous, contemptible fellow; a fop. A pert fribble of a peer. Thackeray.

l by expressing displeasure or disapproval; to rebuke with a look; as, frown the impudent fellow into silence.

. Jer. Taylor. What seem to us but sad funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps. Longfellow. -- Fu*ne"re*al*ly, adv.

A low fellow; a stinkard; a scoundrel. [Obs.] Shak.

An old fellow; an aged rustic. Go to each gaffer and each goody. Fawkes.

A noisy, swaggering, or worthless fellow; a rowdy. [Slang, U. S.]

A boy; fellow; esp., a serving boy or man; a waiter; -- in Eng. chiefly applied to French waiters.

Foolish and awkward; clumsy; clownish; as, gawky behavior. -- n. A fellow who is awkward from being overgrown, or from stupidity, a gawk.