Follower

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Follower \Fol"low*er\, n. [OE. folwere, AS. folgere.]
     1. One who follows; a pursuer; an attendant; a disciple; a
        dependent associate; a retainer.
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     2. A sweetheart; a beau. [Colloq.] --A. Trollope.


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     3. (Steam Engine)
        (a) The removable flange, or cover, of a piston. See
            Illust. of {Piston}.
        (b) A gland. See Illust. of {Stuffing box}.
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     4. (Mach.) The part of a machine that receives motion from
        another part. See {Driver}.
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     5. Among law stationers, a sheet of parchment or paper which
        is added to the first sheet of an indenture or other deed.
  
     Syn: Imitator; copier; disciple; adherent; partisan;
          dependent; attendant.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Gland \Gland\, n. [F. glande, L. glans, glandis, acorn; akin to
     Gr. ? for ?, and ? to cast, throw, the acorn being the
     dropped fruit. Cf. {Parable}, n.]
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     1. (Anat.)
        (a) An organ for secreting something to be used in, or
            eliminated from, the body; as, the sebaceous glands of
            the skin; the salivary glands of the mouth.
        (b) An organ or part which resembles a secreting, or true,
            gland, as the ductless, lymphatic, pineal, and
            pituitary glands, the functions of which are very
            imperfectly known.
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     Note: The true secreting glands are, in principle, narrow
           pouches of the mucous membranes, or of the integument,
           lined with a continuation of the epithelium, or of the
           epidermis, the cells of which produce the secretion
           from the blood. In the larger glands, the pouches are
           tubular, greatly elongated, and coiled, as in the sweat
           glands, or subdivided and branched, making compound and
           racemose glands, such as the pancreas.
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     2. (Bot.)
        (a) A special organ of plants, usually minute and
            globular, which often secretes some kind of resinous,
            gummy, or aromatic product.
        (b) Any very small prominence.
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     3. (Steam Mach.) The movable part of a stuffing box by which
        the packing is compressed; -- sometimes called a
        {follower}. See Illust. of {Stuffing box}, under
        {Stuffing}.
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     4. (Mach.) The crosspiece of a bayonet clutch.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  follower
       n 1: an ordinary person who accepts the leadership of another
            [ant: {leader}]
       2: someone who travels behind or pursues another

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  162 Moby Thesaurus words for "follower":
     Christian, God-fearing man, accepter, addict, adherent, adherents,
     admirer, adorer, advocate, aficionado, amateur, amorist, apostle,
     appendage, apprentice, attendance, attendant, believer,
     body of retainers, bodyguard, booster, bootlicker, buff,
     catechumen, cavaliere servente, chaser, church, churchgoer,
     churchite, churchman, class, cog, cohort, collector, commonality,
     commonalty, communicant, communion, confession, convert, cortege,
     court, courtier, creature, daily communicant, dangler,
     denomination, dependent, devotee, devotionalist, dilettante,
     disciple, disciples, dummy, enthusiast, entourage, faith, fan,
     fanatic, fancier, feudatory, figurehead, flunky, followers,
     following, freak, gillie, good Christian, goon, groupie, habitue,
     hanger-on, heeler, henchman, hoi polloi, homager, homme de cour,
     hunter, idolater, idolizer, infatuate, inferior, ism, jackal,
     junior, lackey, lickspittle, liege, liege man, lightweight, lover,
     lower class, lower orders, man, masses, minion, myrmidon, neophyte,
     order, paramour, parasite, partisan, pawn, peon, persuasion,
     pietist, promoter, proponent, proselyte, public, pupil, puppet,
     pursuant, pursuer, pursuivant, quester, receiver, religionist,
     retainer, retinue, rooter, rout, saint, satellite, school,
     second fiddle, secondary, sect, sectary, seeker, serf, servant,
     shadow, slave, stooge, student, subaltern, subordinate, successor,
     suite, suitor, supporter, sycophant, tagtail, tail, theist,
     third stringer, thug, toady, train, trainbearer, truster,
     underling, understrapper, vassal, votary, ward heeler, wooer,
     worshiper, yeoman, yes-man, zealot