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e at cards, vulgarly called lambskinnet. [They play] their little game of lansquenet. Longfellow.

with midnight plaint. Milton. Looking backward in vain toward their Lares and lands. Longfellow.

A rowdy street loafer; a rowdyish or noisy ill-bred fellow; -- variously applied, as to a street blackguard, a street Arab, a youth given to horse-play, etc. [Australia & Eng.] -- a.

es. Sir T. Browne. Archly the maiden smiled, and with eyes overrunning with laughter. Longfellow.

The stone with moss and lichens so overspread, Nothing is legible but the name alone. Longfellow.

s. [Archaic] Chaucer. But the Jews, which believed not, . . . took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, . . . and assaulted the house of Jason. Acts xvii. 5. Too lewd to work, and ready for any kind of mischief. Southey .

theology. The college of physicians, in July, 1687, published an edict, requiring all the fellows, candidates, and licentiates, to give gratuitous advice to the neighboring poor. Johnson.

in the world. Ascham. Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime. Longfellow. 'T is from high life high characters are drawn. Pope

A low, base fellow; also, a prostitute. [Scot.] Thieves, limmers, and broken men of the Highlands. Sir W. Scott.

ket. In this labor neighboring camps of loggers combine to assist each other in turn. Longfellow. [U.S.]

An awkward, clumsy fellow; a lubber. Swift.

A sorry fellow; a worthless person; a rogue.

A dull, stupid fellow; a drone. [Obs.] Spenser.

A good for nothing fellow; a vagabond. [Obs.] Chaucer.

, so as not to be able to and; to go astray from; as, to lose one's way. He hath lost his fellows. Shak

To bend; to box; to stoop. [Archaic] Chaucer. Longfellow. He fair the knight saluted, louting low. Spenser.

ife; characteristic or indicative of such breeding; rude; impolite; vulgar; as, a lowbred fellow; a lowbred remark.

A low fellow. [Obs.]

A heavy, clumsy, or awkward fellow; a sturdy drone; a clown. Lingering lubbers lose many a penny. Tusser. Land lubber, a name given in contempt by sailors to a person who lives on land. -- Lubber grasshopper (Zoöl.), a large, stout, clumsy grasshopper; esp., Brachystola magna, from the Rocky Mountain plains, and Romal…

ng it . . . luminous. Bacon. The mountains lift . . . their lofty and luminous heads. Longfellow.