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  • English Word Folium Definition A leaf, esp. a thin leaf or plate.
  • English Word Folium Definition A curve of the third order, consisting of two infinite branches, which have a common asymptote. The curve has a double point, and a leaf-shaped loop; whence the name. Its equation is x3 + y3 = axy.
  • English Word Foliums Definition of Folium
  • English Word Folk Definition Alt. of Folks
  • English Word Folk lore Definition Tales, legends, or superstitions long current among the people.
  • English Word Folkland Definition Land held in villenage, being distributed among the folk, or people, at the pleasure of the lord of the manor, and resumed at his discretion. Not being held by any assurance in writing, it was opposed to bookland or charter land, which was held by deed.
  • English Word Folklore Definition Alt. of Folk lore
  • English Word Folkmote Definition An assembly of the people
  • English Word Folkmote Definition a general assembly of the people to consider and order matters of the commonwealth; also, a local court.
  • English Word Folkmoter Definition One who takes part in a folkmote, or local court.
  • English Word Folks Definition In Anglo-Saxon times, the people of a group of townships or villages; a community; a tribe.
  • English Word Folks Definition People in general, or a separate class of people; -- generally used in the plural form, and often with a qualifying adjective; as, the old folks; poor folks.
  • English Word Folks Definition The persons of one's own family; as, our folks are all well.
  • English Word Follicle Definition A simple podlike pericarp which contains several seeds and opens along the inner or ventral suture, as in the peony, larkspur and milkweed.
  • English Word Follicle Definition A small cavity, tubular depression, or sac; as, a hair follicle.
  • English Word Follicle Definition A simple gland or glandular cavity; a crypt.
  • English Word Follicle Definition A small mass of adenoid tissue; as, a lymphatic follicle.
  • English Word Follicular Definition Like, pertaining to, or consisting of, a follicles or follicles.
  • English Word Follicular Definition Affecting the follicles; as, follicular pharyngitis.
  • English Word Folliculated Definition Having follicles.
  • English Word Folliculous Definition Having or producing follicles.
  • English Word Follies Definition of Folly
  • English Word Folliful Definition Full of folly.
  • English Word Follow Definition To go or come after; to move behind in the same path or direction; hence, to go with (a leader, guide, etc.); to accompany; to attend.
  • English Word Follow Definition To endeavor to overtake; to go in pursuit of; to chase; to pursue; to prosecute.
  • English Word Follow Definition To accept as authority; to adopt the opinions of; to obey; to yield to; to take as a rule of action; as, to follow good advice.
  • English Word Follow Definition To copy after; to take as an example.
  • English Word Follow Definition To succeed in order of time, rank, or office.
  • English Word Follow Definition To result from, as an effect from a cause, or an inference from a premise.
  • English Word Follow Definition To watch, as a receding object; to keep the eyes fixed upon while in motion; to keep the mind upon while in progress, as a speech, musical performance, etc.; also, to keep up with; to understand the meaning, connection, or force of, as of a course of thought or argument.