Crossword clues for follower
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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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(Anat.)
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.
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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.
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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(Bot.)
A special organ of plants, usually minute and globular, which often secretes some kind of resinous, gummy, or aromatic product.
Any very small prominence.
(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.
(Mach.) The crosspiece of a bayonet clutch.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English folgere "retainer, servant, disciple; successor," agent noun from follow. Compare similarly formed Old Frisian folgere, Dutch volger, German Folger. Related: Followers.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context literally English) One who follows, comes after another. 2 Something that comes after another thing. 3 One who is a part of master's physical group, such as a servant or retainer. 4 One who follows mentally, adherer to the opinions, ideas or teachings of another, a movement etc. 5 An imitator, who follows another's example 6 A pursuer. 7 A machine part receiving motion from another 8 A man courting a maidservant. 9 Young cattle. 10 A metal piece placed at the top of a candle to keep the wax melting evenly. 11 (context Australian rules football English) Any of the three players (the ruckman, ruck rover, and rover) who usually follow the ball around the ground rather than occupying a fixed position. 12 (context colloquial dated English) A debt collector.
WordNet
n. an ordinary person who accepts the leadership of another [ant: leader]
someone who travels behind or pursues another
Wikipedia
In Australian rules football, the followers are the players in the three positions- ruckman, ruck rover, and rover. These three players are known as followers because they have traditionally been used as players that follow the ball all around the ground, as opposed to playing in a set position. In recent years, there has been a decreased emphasis on set positions in Australian football. Followers still cover more ground than any other player on the field.
"Follower" is a short story by Orson Scott Card. It appears in his short story collection Maps in a Mirror.
Follower or variants may refer to:
Usage examples of "follower".
This was the final consequence and the shattering cost of the aberration which came over the Nazi dictator in his youthful gutter days in Vienna and which he imparted to - or shared with - so many of his German followers.
Thus also Nachi Cocom, who dwelt in the chief town of Zututa in the province Chichen Itza, that called Chichen Itza, and Ah Cahuot Cocom, aiding the word of God and our great King, delivered up their standards and banners for the sake of our great King, for the conquest, and received the Adelantado and the father the priest in their towns, nor did they make war, but abstained from all injury, and laid out churches and town-houses for their followers.
Few of his followers had horses, and the more that came afoot, the slower they would go.
There was no light save the light shed abroad by the flashes of the blade, and in these they beheld the air suffocated with Afrites and Genii in a red and brown and white heat, followers of Karaz.
Manson taught his followers that the White Album prophesied that the black races would rise up and murder the whites but that Manson and his Family would be saved.
Followers of the Grand Alchemist had no temple, though all were open to them.
But here his voice was lost in the joyous acclamations of his followers who shouted amain until the Duchess quelled them with lifted hand.
Wolf Lapine and his followers had captured the garage first crack and were in full possession of the vans in which they expected to load the Argyle treasures.
As he advanced into Thrace, the son of Theodemir found an inhospitable solitude, and his Gothic followers, with a heavy train of horses, of mules, and of wagons, were betrayed by their guides among the rocks and precipices of Mount Sondis, where he was assaulted by the arms and invectives of Theodoric the son of Triarius.
I raced among the mob of followers, who grasped at me as if I were their saving god, as I searched desperately for where Asteria might have run among the chaotic defenses.
I saw Asteria standing with a group of camp followers, craning her neck to see above the men in front of her.
When talking with Asteria that night, as I helped her draw water for the camp followers from a nearby stream, a look of shock passed across her face when I mentioned that we were unlikely to see Tissaphernes again.
To the grief of Madam Rothsay herself, and of the beautiful charge from whom she was thus separated, this plan was at once carried out, with the result that Mahng was restored to his followers.
However, he had better fortune than what attended poor Orpheus, for he brought his companion, or rather follower, safe into the famous town of Upton.
The emperor immediately ordered the young knight to be hanged, and bade some of his most noble followers to see the sentence executed.