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▪ I. ˈfollowing, pres. pple.
of follow v., loosely used as quasi-prep.: as a sequel to, in succession to (an event), after.
1947Evening News 11 Dec., The prologue was written by the company following an incident witnessed by them during anti-Jewish demonstrations following the hanging of two British soldiers in Palestine. 1948E. Gowers Plain Words 56 Perhaps the fight against following as a preposition ought to be regarded as lost. 1968Observer 24 Mar. 6/4 Used car prices are going up, following the Budget.
▪ II. following, vbl. n.|ˈfɒləʊɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing1.]
1. The action of the verb follow, in its various uses. Also with advs., as following up.
a1300Cursor M. 27832 (Cott.) O couaitise..cums..fals foluing, fals wittnesing. 1435Misyn Fire of Love 66 In filoing of vertew. 156239 Articles No. 9 Originall sinne standeth not in the following of Adam. 1649Drummond of Hawthornden Hist. Jas. V Wks. (1711) 107 That the chace and following of hereticks is more necessary than that of infidels. 1801Strutt Sports & Past. i. i. 13 Queen Elizabeth..frequently indulged herself in following of the hounds. 1875Whitney Life Lang. viii. 143 The following-up of a series of acts.
2. concr. A body of followers, attendants, retainers or adherents; followers collectively.
c1450Mirour Saluacioun 1865 Abraham and his fylowing discomfit thaym be gods grace. 1695Blair in Blackmore's Hist. Conspir. (1723) 117 He was a Man of great following and Interest in his Country. 1715Wodrow Corr. (1843) II. 88 He reckons Mar's following must decrease. 1816Scott Old Mort. xxvi. 191 The unfortunate Duke of Monmouth, who had..a numerous following, as it was called, in the southern parts of that kingdom. a1859Macaulay Hist. Eng. V. 110 Such a man, with a great name in the country and a strong following in Parliament. 1889Jessopp Coming of Friars i. 39 [They] started lectures and secured a large following.
▪ III. ˈfollowing, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
1. That follows or moves after another.
1626Bacon Sylva §844 By the more Equall spreading of the Tangible Parts, which thereby are more Sliding and Following. 1715–20Pope Iliad xiv. 489 His following shield the fallen chief o'erspread. 1796–7Instr. & Reg. Cavalry (1813) 125 The three's wheel from the pivot flank, which then becomes the following one.
2. That comes after or next in order or in time; succeeding, subsequent, ensuing.
In most collocations placed indifferently before or after the n.; as, in the following year, in the year following.
a1300Cursor M. 11378 (Cott.) Þe nest yeire foluand. c1330R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 87 In þe ȝere folowand. c1430Mandeville (Roxb.) xxiv. 110 On þe nyght next folowand. 1535Coverdale 2 Macc. xii. 39 Vpon the daye folowinge. 1667Milton P.L. x. 278 Living Carcasses design'd For death, the following day, in bloodie fight. 1742Johnson L.P., Sydenham, To continue the same office upon all following occasions. 1829Marryat F. Mildmay xxii, They were asked in church the Sunday following. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. viii. 57 Early on the following day. 1875Whitney Life Lang. iv. 46 A sibilant with following palatal mute.
b. In introducing a statement, enumeration, etc.: That now follows; that is immediately to be set forth, mentioned, recounted, or the like. Also absol. (the following).
1340Ayenb. 1 Þis byeþ þe capiteles of þe boc uolȝinde. 1545–8Yorksh. Chantry Surv. 11 (Surtees) 461 In thandes of the personnes foloing. 1626Bacon Sylva §846 They are all but the effects of some of these causes following. 1653Walton Angler To Rdr., I think fit to tell thee these following truths. 1711Steele Spect. No. 152 ⁋2 My Friend answered what I said in the following manner. 1794Sullivan View Nat. I. 225 The following..may not, as an example, be unworthy of notice. 1807T. Thomson Chem. II. 148 The following bodies have the property of converting nitric oxide into nitrous oxide. 1841Lane Arab. Nts. I. 123 Among the common dishes are the following.
c. Ensuing as an effect or consequence, resulting.
1593Shakes. Lucr. 166 In his inward mind he doth debate, What following sorrow may on this arise. 1687Shadwell Juvenal x. 46 The Conquerors used to put the following spoyls upon the stumps of Trees, which were call'd Trophies.
†3. Conformable, correspondent. answerable.
c1340Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 145 His wombe & his wast were worthily smale, & alle his fetures folȝande. Ibid. 859 Tapytez tyȝt to þe woȝe, of tuly & tars, & vnder fete, on þe flet, of folȝande sute.
4. Of wind or tide: ? Moving in the direction of the ship's course. (Cf. L. ventus secundus.)
1807J. Boone in Naval Chron. XXIII. 406 She was assisted by a high following sea. 1839Marryat Phant. Ship viii, You may sail for weeks with a cloudless sky and a following breeze, without starting tack or sheet. 1858W. Cook in Merc. Marine Mag. V. 42 We had a following sea previous to falling in with this mist, but the sea then changed to a kind of boil, or topping sea.
5. Billiards and Croquet. following stroke = follow n. 2.
1867Dufton Pract. Billiards iii. 45. 1868 W. J. Whitmore Croquet Tac. 15 In making a following stroke, the player must follow with the mallet head, as a person follows with the cue at billiards. 1884[See follow v. 19 a].
6. In various technical usages.
1839Ure Dict. Arts 979 When a coal has a following or roof stone, which regularly separates with the coal. 1883Gresley Gloss. Coal-m., Following dirt, loose shale, etc., in a thin bed forming the roof of a coal seam. Ibid., Following-up bank, a breadth of about 6 yards of coal taken off on either side of a leading bank. 1888Lockwood's Dict. Mech. Engin., Following edge, that edge of the blade of a screw propeller which leaves the water behind it, as distinguished from the leading edge. Following joints. The rings of which cylindrical boilers are built, being lap jointed, fit one within the other. Instead, therefore, of being parallel cylinders, they are necessarily frustra of cones, and as the joints all lap in one direction, they are termed following joints. Following steady, a steady which is attached to the back of the side rest of a lathe, and which embraces the work behind or after the tool and follows it along with the rest. 1967Gloss. Mining Terms (B.S.I.) xi. 8 Following roof, a layer of roof which falls as coal is excavated, or soon after. |