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A stupid fellow. [Obs.] Shak.

The act of inquiring or requesting; a petition; solicitation. Longfellow.

A dull, heavy, stupid fellow; a dolt. Shak. Asses' Bridge. Etym: [L. pons asinorum.] The fifth proposition of the first book of Euclid, "The angles at the base of an isosceles triangle are equal to one another." [Sportive] "A schoolboy, stammering out his Asses' Bridge." F. Harrison. -- To make an ass of one's self, t…

mpanion; one frequently in company with another, implying intimacy or equality; a mate; a fellow.

e bars of the palisade. Sir W. Scott. Glasses with horn bows sat astride on his nose. Longfellow.

empt a bold flight. Something attempted, something done, Has earned a night's repose. Longfellow.

of morning. Grove. The crowing cock . . . Sang his aubade with lusty voice and clear. Longfellow.

a (the dawn or the northern lights); rosy. Her cheeks suffused with an auroral blush. Longfellow.

Odd; having no fellow; not one of a pair; single; as, the azygous muscle of the uvula.

ded; unworthy; without dignity of sentiment; ignoble; mean; illiberal; menial; as, a base fellow; base motives; base occupations. "A cruel act of a base and a cowardish mind." Robynson (More's Utopia). "Base ingratitude." Milton.

the lime tree. All the bowls were made of basswood, White and polished very smoothly. Longfellow.

"The rosy shadows bathe me. " Tennyson. "The bright sunshine bathing all the world." Longfellow.

A fine fellow; -- a term of endearment. [Obs.] "How now, my bawcock " Shak.

A stupid, clownish fellow. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Having a beard. "Bearded fellow." Shak. "Bearded grain." Dryden. Bearded vulture, Bearded eagle. (Zoöl.) See Lammergeir. -- Bearded tortoise. (Zoöl.) See Matamata.

Fig.: A coarse, brutal, filthy, or degraded fellow.

rolling tempests vainly beat below. Dryden. They [winds] beat at the crazy casement. Longfellow. The sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wisbed in himself to die. Jonah iv. 8. Public envy seemeth to beat chiefly upon ministers. Bacon.

A bedfellow. [Obs.] Chapman.

A stupid fellow; a blockhead. Sir W. Scott.

s a friend to; to favor; to aid, benefit, or countenance. By the darkness befriended. Longfellow.