FPage 228
- 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.