a. [f. FELLOW sb. + -LESS.] Without a fellow.
1. † Without a companion; alone, solitary (obs.). Of one of a pair: Without the fellow.
a. 1420. Hoccleve, De Regimine Principum, 8.
| O thyng I say, yf thow go felaweles, | |
| Alle solitarie. |
1887. The Saturday Review, LXIII. 5 Feb., 196/1. In the House of Commons every one who has legs on which to stand, and a voice sounding as that of a man, claims the right to inflict himself on members attending to him as little as the benches on which they sit, or on which they are represented quite as satisfactorily by a hat, in some cases perhaps more empty than the head to which it belongs, or by a fellowless glove.
2. poet. Without a peer or equal; matchless.
1580. Sidney, Arcadia (1622), 417. The fellowlesse Philoclea.
1598. Chapman, Iliad, II. 434.
| And Hypothebs, whose well-built walls are rare and fellowless. | |
| Ibid. (c. 1611), XII. 107. | |
| Asteropæus great in arms, and Glaucus; for both these | |
| Were best of all men but himself, but he was fellowless. |
1863. W. Lancaster, Præterita, 43.
| The haught Kings fall in thinking on the wreck | |
| They left by Lemnos and the archer hand | |
| Once fellowless in Hellas. |
