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FOL'LOW,

1. To go after or behind to walk, ride or move behind, but in the same direction. Soldiers will usually follow a brave officer.

2. To pursue to chase as an enemy, or as game.

3. To accompany to attend in a journey.

And Rebekah arose, and her damsels, and they rode on the camels, and followed the man. Genesis 24 .

4. To accompany to be of the same company to attend, for any purpose. Luke 5 .

5. To succeed in order of time to come after as a storm is followed by a calm.

Signs following signs lead on the mighty year.

6. To be consequential to result from, as effect from a cause. Intemperance is often followed by disease or poverty, or by both.

7. To result from, as an inference or deduction. It follows from these facts that the accused is guilty.

8. To pursue with the eye to keep the eyes fixed on a moving body. He followed or his eyes followed the ship, till it was beyond sight.

He followed with his eyes the fleeting shade.

9. To imitate to copy as, to follow a pattern or model to follow fashion.

10. To embrace to adopt and maintain to have or entertain like opinions to think or believe like another as, to follow the opinions and tenets of a philsophic sect to follow Plato.

11. To obey to observe to practice to act in conformity to. It is our duty to follow the commands of Christ. Good soldiers follow the orders of their general good servants follow the directions of their master.

12. To pursue as an object of desire to endeavor to obtain.

Follow peace with all men. Hebrews 12 .

13. To use to practice to make the chief business as, to follow the trade of a carpenter to follow the profession of law.

14. To adhere to to side with.

The house of Judah followed David. 2 Samuel 2 .

15. To adhere to to honor to worship to serve.

If the Lord be God, follow him. 1 Kings 18 .

16. To be led or guided by.

Wo to the foolish prophets, who follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing. Ezekiel 13 .

17. To move on in the same course or direction to be guided by as, to follow a track or course.

FOL'LOW,

1. To come after another.

The famine - shall follow close after you. Jeremiah 42 .

2. To attend to accompany.

3. To be posterior in time as following ages.

4. To be consequential, as effect to cause. From such measures, great mischiefs must follow.

5. To result, as an inference. The facts may be admitted, but the inference drawn from them does not follow.

To follow on, to continue pursuit or endeavor to persevere.

Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord.

Hosea 6 .