Available Definitions:
1) n. - One's followers, adherents, or dependents, collectively.
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 earth's rotation); as, a small star, north following or south following. In the direction toward which stars appear to move is called preceding.
5) v. t. - To succeed in order of time, rank, or office.
6) v. t. - To result from, as an effect from a cause, or an inference from a premise.
7) v. t. - To watch, as a receding object; to keep the eyes fixed upon while in motion; to keep the mind upon while in progress, as a speech, musical performance, etc.; also, to keep up with; to understand the meaning, connection, or force of, as of a course of thought or argument.
8) v. t. - To walk in, as a road or course; to attend upon closely, as a profession or calling.
9) v. i. - To go or come after; -- used in the various senses of the transitive verb: To pursue; to attend; to accompany; to be a result; to imitate.