FOLLOWING

n. a.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

One's followers, adherents, or dependents, collectively. Macaulay.

2.
n.

Vocation; business; profession.

3.
a.

Next after; succeeding; ensuing; as, the assembly was held on the following day.

4.
a.

(In the field of a telescope) In the direction from which stars are apparently moving (in consequence of the erth's rotation); as, a small star, north following or south following. In the direction toward which stars appear to move is called preceding.

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