Word Meanings - SLOWBACK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A lubber; an idle fellow; a loiterer. Dr. Favour.

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• FELLOW-COMMONER
  A student at Cambridge University, England, who commons, or dines, at the Fellow's table.
• FELLOWSHIP
  1. The state or relation of being or associate. 2. 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.
• FELLOWSHIP; GOOD FELLOWSHIP
  companionableness; the spirit and disposition befitting comrades. There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee. Shak.
• LOITERER
  1. One who loiters; an idler. 2. An idle vagrant; a tramp. Bp. Sanderson.
• FELLOW-FEELING
  1. Sympathy; a like feeling. 2. Joint interest. Arbuthnot.
• FELLOWLIKE
  Like a companion; companionable; on equal terms; sympathetic. Udall.
• FELLOWLY
  Fellowlike. Shak.
• FELLOW
  companionship, prop., a laying together of property; fe property + lag a laying, pl. lög law, akin to liggja to lie. See Fee, and Law, 1. A companion; a comrade; an associate; a partner; a sharer. The fellows of his crime. Milton. We are fellows
• FELLOW-CREATURE
  One of the same race or kind; one made by the same Creator. Reason, by which we are raised above our fellow-creatures, the brutes. I. Watts.
• FELLOWFEEL
  To share through sympathy; to participate in. D. Rodgers.
• FELLOWLESS
  Without fellow or equal; peerless. Whose well-built walls are rare and fellowless. Chapman.
• LUBBERLY
  Like a lubber; clumsy. A great lubberly boy. Shak.
• LUBBER
  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 , a large, stout, clumsy grasshopper;
• SLUBBERDEGULLION
  A mean, dirty wretch.
• BESLUBBER
  To beslobber.
• BEDFELLOW
  One who lies with another in the same bed; a person who shares one's couch.
• UNFELLOWED
  Being without a fellow; unmatched; unmated. Shak.
• DISFELLOWSHIP
  To exclude from fellowship; to refuse intercourse with, as an associate. An attempt to disfellowship an evil, but to fellowship the evildoer. Freewill Bapt. Quart.
• ODD FELLOW
  A member of a secret order, or fraternity, styled the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, established for mutual aid and social enjoyment.
• PEWFELLOW
  1. One who occupies the same pew with another. 2. An intimate associate; a companion. Shak.
• GOOD-FELLOWSHIP
  Agreeable companionship; companionableness.
• BLUBBERY
  1. Swollen; protuberant. 2. Like blubber; gelatinous and quivering; as, a blubbery mass.
• PLAYFELLOW
  A companion in amusements or sports; a playmate. Shak.
• COACHFELLOW
  One of a pair of horses employed to draw a coach; hence , a comrade. Shak.
• BEBLUBBER
  To make swollen and disfigured or sullied by weeping; as, her eyes or cheeks were beblubbered.