follower

follower
    n 1: a person who accepts the leadership of another [ant:
         {leader}]
    2: someone who travels behind or pursues another
    

Follower \Fol"low*er\, n. [OE. folwere, AS. folgere.]
   1. One who follows; a pursuer; an attendant; a disciple; a
      dependent associate; a retainer.
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   2. A sweetheart; a beau. [Colloq.] --A. Trollope.
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   3. (Steam Engine)
      (a) The removable flange, or cover, of a piston. See
          Illust. of {Piston}.
      (b) A gland. See Illust. of {Stuffing box}.
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   4. (Mach.) The part of a machine that receives motion from
      another part. See {Driver}.
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   5. Among law stationers, a sheet of parchment or paper which
      is added to the first sheet of an indenture or other deed.

   Syn: Imitator; copier; disciple; adherent; partisan;
        dependent; attendant.
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Gland \Gland\, n. [F. glande, L. glans, glandis, acorn; akin to
   Gr. ? for ?, and ? to cast, throw, the acorn being the
   dropped fruit. Cf. {Parable}, n.]
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   1. (Anat.)
      (a) An organ for secreting something to be used in, or
          eliminated from, the body; as, the sebaceous glands of
          the skin; the salivary glands of the mouth.
      (b) An organ or part which resembles a secreting, or true,
          gland, as the ductless, lymphatic, pineal, and
          pituitary glands, the functions of which are very
          imperfectly known.
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   Note: The true secreting glands are, in principle, narrow
         pouches of the mucous membranes, or of the integument,
         lined with a continuation of the epithelium, or of the
         epidermis, the cells of which produce the secretion
         from the blood. In the larger glands, the pouches are
         tubular, greatly elongated, and coiled, as in the sweat
         glands, or subdivided and branched, making compound and
         racemose glands, such as the pancreas.
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   2. (Bot.)
      (a) A special organ of plants, usually minute and
          globular, which often secretes some kind of resinous,
          gummy, or aromatic product.
      (b) Any very small prominence.
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   3. (Steam Mach.) The movable part of a stuffing box by which
      the packing is compressed; -- sometimes called a
      {follower}. See Illust. of {Stuffing box}, under
      {Stuffing}.
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   4. (Mach.) The crosspiece of a bayonet clutch.
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162 Moby Thesaurus words for "follower":
      Christian, God-fearing man, accepter, addict, adherent, adherents,
      admirer, adorer, advocate, aficionado, amateur, amorist, apostle,
      appendage, apprentice, attendance, attendant, believer,
      body of retainers, bodyguard, booster, bootlicker, buff,
      catechumen, cavaliere servente, chaser, church, churchgoer,
      churchite, churchman, class, cog, cohort, collector, commonality,
      commonalty, communicant, communion, confession, convert, cortege,
      court, courtier, creature, daily communicant, dangler,
      denomination, dependent, devotee, devotionalist, dilettante,
      disciple, disciples, dummy, enthusiast, entourage, faith, fan,
      fanatic, fancier, feudatory, figurehead, flunky, followers,
      following, freak, gillie, good Christian, goon, groupie, habitue,
      hanger-on, heeler, henchman, hoi polloi, homager, homme de cour,
      hunter, idolater, idolizer, infatuate, inferior, ism, jackal,
      junior, lackey, lickspittle, liege, liege man, lightweight, lover,
      lower class, lower orders, man, masses, minion, myrmidon, neophyte,
      order, paramour, parasite, partisan, pawn, peon, persuasion,
      pietist, promoter, proponent, proselyte, public, pupil, puppet,
      pursuant, pursuer, pursuivant, quester, receiver, religionist,
      retainer, retinue, rooter, rout, saint, satellite, school,
      second fiddle, secondary, sect, sectary, seeker, serf, servant,
      shadow, slave, stooge, student, subaltern, subordinate, successor,
      suite, suitor, supporter, sycophant, tagtail, tail, theist,
      third stringer, thug, toady, train, trainbearer, truster,
      underling, understrapper, vassal, votary, ward heeler, wooer,
      worshiper, yeoman, yes-man, zealot