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  • English Word Follow Definition To walk in, as a road or course; to attend upon closely, as a profession or calling.
  • English Word Follow Definition To go or come after; -- used in the various senses of the transitive verb: To pursue; to attend; to accompany; to be a result; to imitate.
  • English Word Followed Definition of Follow
  • English Word Follower Definition One who follows; a pursuer; an attendant; a disciple; a dependent associate; a retainer.
  • English Word Follower Definition A sweetheart; a beau.
  • English Word Follower Definition The removable flange, or cover, of a piston. See Illust. of Piston.
  • English Word Follower Definition A gland. See Illust. of Stuffing box.
  • English Word Follower Definition The part of a machine that receives motion from another part. See Driver.
  • English Word Follower Definition Among law stationers, a sheet of parchment or paper which is added to the first sheet of an indenture or other deed.
  • English Word Following Definition of Follow
  • English Word Following Definition One's followers, adherents, or dependents, collectively.
  • English Word Following Definition Vocation; business; profession.
  • English Word Following Definition Next after; succeeding; ensuing; as, the assembly was held on the following day.
  • English Word Following Definition (In the field of a telescope) In the direction from which stars are apparently moving (in consequence of the earth's rotation); as, a small star, north following or south following. In the direction toward which stars appear to move is called preceding.
  • English Word Folly Definition The state of being foolish; want of good sense; levity, weakness, or derangement of mind.
  • English Word Folly Definition A foolish act; an inconsiderate or thoughtless procedure; weak or light-minded conduct; foolery.
  • English Word Folly Definition Scandalous crime; sin; specifically, as applied to a woman, wantonness.
  • English Word Folly Definition The result of a foolish action or enterprise.
  • English Word Folwe Definition To follow.
  • English Word Fomalhaut Definition A star of the first magnitude, in the constellation Piscis Australis, or Southern Fish.
  • English Word Foment Definition To apply a warm lotion to; to bathe with a cloth or sponge wet with warm water or medicated liquid.
  • English Word Foment Definition To cherish with heat; to foster.
  • English Word Foment Definition To nurse to life or activity; to cherish and promote by excitements; to encourage; to abet; to instigate; -- used often in a bad sense; as, to foment ill humors.
  • English Word Fomentation Definition The act of fomenting; the application of warm, soft, medicinal substances, as for the purpose of easing pain, by relaxing the skin, or of discussing tumors.
  • English Word Fomentation Definition The lotion applied to a diseased part.
  • English Word Fomentation Definition Excitation; instigation; encouragement.
  • English Word Fomented Definition of Foment
  • English Word Fomenter Definition One who foments; one who encourages or instigates; as, a fomenter of sedition.
  • English Word Fomenting Definition of Foment
  • English Word Fomes Definition Any substance supposed to be capable of absorbing, retaining, and transporting contagious or infectious germs; as, woolen clothes are said to be active fomites.