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Without fellow or equal; peerless. Whose well-built walls are rare and fellowless. Chapman.

Like a companion; companionable; on equal terms; sympathetic. [Obs.] Udall.

Companionship of persons on equal and friendly terms; frequent and familiar intercourse. In a great town, friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship which is in less neighborhods. Bacon. Men are made for society and mutual fellowship. Calamy.

Consisting of one of fifteen equal parts or divisions of a thing.

Consisting of one of five equal divisions of a thing. Fifth monarchy men (Hist.), a fanatical sect in England, of the time of the commonwealth, who maintained that there would be a fifth universal monarchy, during which Christ would reign on earth a thousand years. -- Fifth wheel, a horizontal wheel or segment above t…

Consisting of one of fifty equal parts or divisions.

An ordinary equaling in breadth one fourth of the chief, to the lowest portion of which it corresponds in position.

g measure of capacity, usually being the fourth part of a barrel; specifically, a measure equal to nine imperial gallons. [Eng.]

as, a fit melancholy, of passion, or of laughter. All fits of pleasure we balanced by an equal degree of pain. Swift. The English, however, were on this subject prone to fits of jealously. Macaulay.

urished in Europe in the 13th and 14th centuries, and maintained that flagellation was of equal virtue with baptism and the sacrament; -- called also disciplinant.

Two or more vanes set on a revolving axis, to act as a fanner, or to equalize or impede the motion of machinery by the resistance of the air, as in the striking part of a clock.

A unit of energy, or work, being equal to the work done in raising one pound avoirdupois against the force of gravity the height of one foot.

A unit of energy or work, equal to the work done in moving a body through one foot against the force of one poundal.

A unit of energy or work, being equal to the work done in raising one ton against the force of gravity through the height of one foot.

Relative condition; state. Lived on a footing of equality with nobles. Macaulay.

The van; the front. [Obs.] My foreward shall be drawn out all in length, Consisting equally of horse and foot. Shak.

Constituting one of forty equal parts into which anything is divided.

e; happy event; success; prosperity as reached partly by chance and partly by effort. Our equal crimes shall equal fortune give. Dryden. There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Shak. His father dying, he was driven to seek his fortune. Swift.

Having four sides and four equal angles. Sir W. Raleigh.

Making or constituting one of fourteen equal parts into which anything may be derived.