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A lingerer; a dull, drowsy fellow. [Obs.]

A lazy fellow; a lubber. [Obs.] T. Kendall.

A finical fellow, or macaroni. [Obs.]

curse or execration; -- opposed to benediction. No malediction falls from his tongue. Longfellow.

Manito the mighty, The Great Spirit, the creator, Smiled upon his helpless children! Longfellow. Mitche Manito the mighty, He the dreadful Spirit of Evil, As a serpent was depicted. Longfellow.

perennis). The name is often applied also to the ox-eye daisy and to the China aster. Longfellow.

Preëminence; high position; as, particians of mark; a fellow of no mark.

o the Christian faith, or to any cause. Bacon. I came from martyrdom unto this peace. Longfellow.

. . . makes an innocent man, though of the lowest rank, a match for the mightiest of his fellow subjects. Addison.

nto good. Gen. 1. 20. I am not a Spaniard To say that it is yours and not to mean it. Longfellow.

ssion of sounds; as, a melodious voice. "A melodious voice." "A melodious undertone." Longfellow. -- Me*lo"di*ous*ly, adv. -- Me*lo"di*ous*ness, n.

The land within the boundaries of a farm; a farmstead or farm. [Archaic.] Longfellow.

floats vague in the ether, Ships and the shadows of ships hang in the motionless air. Longfellow.

Darkness; gloom; murk. "In mirk and mire." Longfellow.

Worthless; mean; despicable; as, a miserable fellow; a miserable dinner. Miserable comforters are ye all. Job xvi. 2.

rvice; a delegation; an embassy. In these ships there should be a mission of three of the fellows or brethren of Solomon's house. Bacon.

monarch; sovoreign; regal; imperial. Satan, whom now transcendent glory raised Above his fellows, with monarchal pride. Milton.

Monks, regarded collectively. Longfellow.

A dolt; a stupid fellow. Dryden.

who lives in conformity with moral rules; one of correct deportment and dealings with his fellow-creatures; -- sometimes used in contradistinction to one whose life is controlled by religious motives. The love (in the moralist of virtue, but in the Christian) of God himself. Hammond.