folkmoot 
folkmoot (fok'mSt), . [A mod. form, repr. ME. 
"folkmote, AS. folc-geiitot (= Dan. folkemiide = 
Sw. folkmote), < folc, the people, + yemot, a 
meeting: see folk and moot. The form folkmotf 
is also used archaically in mod. law writings, 
histories, etc.; it scarcely occurs in ME. litera- 
ture.] 1. Formerly, in England, an assembly 
of the shire, containing representatives from 
townships and hundreds ; also, a local court. 
To which fol ke-mote they all with one consent . . . 
Agreed to travell and their fortunes try. 
Spenser, F. Q., IV. Iv. 6. 
Four representative burghers attend like the four men 
;ind the reeve in the ancient folktnoots, and on behalf of 
their neighbours transact the business of the day. 
Stuubs, Const. Hist., 422. 
2. A place where assemblies of the people were 
held. [Rare.] 
These romule hills and square bawues, which ye see soe 
strongly trenched and throwen tip, were (they say) at first 
ordayned for the same purpose, that people might assem- 
ble theron ; and therefore annciently they were called 
t'olkemotes: that is, a place for people to meete or talke 
of any thing that concerned any difference betweue par- 
tyes and towneships. Spenser, State of Irelaud. 
folkmootert (fok'mo-ter), . [< folkmoot + 
-erl.] A frequenter of folkmoots or popular 
meetings ; a democrat. 
Keep your problems of ten groats ; these matters are 
not for pragmatics and folk-mooters to babble in. 
Milton, Colasterion. 
folkmotet, . See folkmoot. 
folk-psychology (f6k'si-kol"6-ji), . [Tr. G. 
volkerpsycliologie. ] Same as ethnopsychology. 
folk-right (fok'rit), n. [A mod. form, repr. AS. 
fole-riht, (.folc, the people, + riht, right, law.] 
The common law or right of the people; the 
law or right of the people as opposed to that 
of the privileged classes. 
When one of Beowulf's " comrades" saw his lord hard 
bestead, "he minded him of the homestead he had given 
him. of the folk-riiiht he gave him as his father had it; 
nor might he hold back then." 
J. R. Green, Making of Eng., p. 168. 
folk-song (fok'sdng), n. [Tr. G. i-oltcslied.'] 1. 
A song of the people ; a song based on a legen- 
dary or historical event, or on some incident of 
common life, the words and generally the mu- 
sic of which have originated among the common 
people and are extensively used by them. 
The idyllic bond between shepherd and sheep has formed 
the subject of many quaintly graceful Roumanian folk- 
songi. Contemporary Rev., LI. 338. 
2. A song written in imitation of the simple 
and artless style of such a popular song. 
folk-speech (fok'spech), . [< folk + speech; 
after G. volksspraclte.] Popular language ; the 
dialect spoken by the common people of a 
country or district, as distinguished from the 
speech of the educated people or from the lit- 
erary language. 
There must have been very great diversity in the folk- 
speech. F. A. March, Anglo-Saxon Grammar, p. 11. 
folk-story (fok'sto^ri), n. A popular legend. 
Quaint folk-stories handed down by tradition from gen- 
eration to generation. 
Scribner's May., III., p. 4 of Book Notices, etc. 
follet, v. t. Same as full*. 
follett (fo-la'), n. [F.] Sameas/oKof. 
follia (fol-le'a), n. [It., folly, madness, extrava- 
gance: see folly.'} In music, a series of varia- 
tions on a theme, the only merit of which is their 
ingenuity. 
follicle (fol'i-kl), n. [= F. follicule = Sp. Pg. 
It. (obs.) folliculo = It. follicolo, < L. folliculus, 
a small bag or sack, dim. otfollis, a pair of bel- 
lows, a wind-bag, a money-bag, etc.] 1. In bot. : 
() A dry one-celled seed-vessel consisting of 
a single carpel, and dehiscent 
only by the ventral suture, as 
in the milkweed and larkspur. 
(6f) Any bladder-shaped ap- 
pendage; a utricle. 2. In 
anat. and sool., a minute se- 
cretory or excretory cavity, 
sac, or tube ; one of the ulti- 
mate blind ramifications of a 
secretory surface; a glandu- 
lar cul-de-sac ; a mucous crypt 
or lacuna ; a minute nodule 
of lymphoid tissue. A seba- 
ceous .follicle is a pit in the skin se- 
cretingagreasysubstance; &gastric 
follicle is one of the glandular tubes of the mucous mem- 
brane of the stomach secreting gastric juice ; an intestinal 
follicle is one of the secretory mucous crypts of the intes- 
tines ; a Oraafian follicle is a little sac in an ovary in which 
an ovum matures. The solitary and agminate glands, 
glands of Brunner, Peyer's patches, crypts of Lieberkiihn. 
etc., are all follicles or aggregations of follicles. The term 
FoMicle, def. fa). 
Fruit of Larkspur. 
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is sometimes extended to a cluster of follicles, thus being 
made synonymous with iilmi'i. 
3. In eutom., a cocoon; the covering made by 
a larva for its protection during the pupa state. 
follicular (fo-lik'u-ltir), a. [< LL. follicular!.*, < 
lj. folliculus, asmalfbag: see follicle."} 1. Per- 
taining to, contained in, or having the char- 
acter of a follicle: as, a follicular secretion 
or parasite; follicular pores. 2. Composed or 
consisting of follicles. 
The four tentacles of the posterior division have under- 
gone much modification, and are converted into a peculiar 
organ termed the spadix, which bears a diacoidal/oUicu/ar 
gland. Huxley, Anat. Invert., p. 457. 
3. Provided with follicles. 
folliculate, folliculated (fo-Hk'u-lat, -la-ted), 
a. 1. Same as follicular, 3. 2. lii entom., hav- 
ing a case or cocoon : applied to many pupee and 
some larvse which are so protected. 
follicule (fol'i-kul), . [< L. folliculus, a small 
bag: see follicle."} 1. A follicle. Hence 2. 
A wind-bag; a puffed-up, conceited person. 
[Rare.] 
The reporters and other literary and aocMfollicules who 
have contributed to her ridiculous reputation. 
The American, I. 251. 
Folliculina (fo-lik-u-li'na), M. 
[NL., < L. folliculus, a small bag.] 
A genus of heterotrichous cili- 
ate infusorians, established by La- 
marck in 1816 : called Preia by Cla- 
parede and Lachmann in 1856. They 
are trumpet-animalcules of the family 
Stentorian, with the peristome divided 
into two lappet-like parts. F. ampulla is 
fomralitis(fo-lik-u-li'ti8),n [NL., jSflSfc 
< follicule + -ttis.] In pat1iol.,w- ,/.<. amfui- 
flammation of one or more follicles. times enlfied 
folliculose, folliculous (fo-lik'u- ; 
16s, -lus), a. [< LL. folliculosus, full of husks, 
< L. folliculus, a small bag, husk, etc.: see fol- 
licle.] Having the appearance or nature of a 
follicle. 
Antheridia in folliculose bodies on the surface of sepa- 
rate thalli. Bull. 211. State Laboratory Kat. Hilt., II. 30. 
follifult (fol'i-ful), a. [< folly + -ful.~} Full of 
folly. Shenstone. 
follow (fol'6), v. [< ME.folotcen,foluu:eti,folweii, 
folghen, folgen, folgien, etc. (also with umlaut 
filighen, fililien.fulien), < AS. folgian (also with 
reg. umlaut fylgian, fylgcan, with syncope fyl- 
gnn, with intrusive i fyligian, fyligean, fyligan) 
= OS. folgon = OFries. folgia, fulgia, folia = 
D. MLG. volgen = OHG. folgen, MHG. volgen, 
G.folgen = Icel. fylgja = D&n.folge = Sw.folja, 
follow; not*in Goth.; connections unknown.] 
1. trans. 1. To go or come after ; move behind 
in the same direction : as, the dog followed his 
master home; follow me. 
He [Edward the Confessor] took the greatest delight, 
says William of Malmsbury, "to follow a pack of swift 
hounds in pursuit of game, and to cheer them with his 
voice." Strutt, Sports and Pastimes, p. 60. 
Of him who walked in glory and in joy, 
Following his plough, along the mountain side. 
Wordsworth, Resolution and Independence, st. 7. 
Fain had hefollow'd their receding steps. 
M. Arnold, Balder Dead. 
2. To come after in natural sequence, or in 
order of time ; succeed. 
The nexte houre of MturafolwyHge this, 
Arcite unto the temple walked is 
Of flerse Mars. Chaucer, Knight's Tale, 1. 1509. 
They were free from that childish love of titles which 
characterized the . . . generation which preceded them, 
and . . . that which folloteed them. 
Macaiday, Lord Bacon. 
Seest thou how tears still follow earthly bliss? 
William Morris, Earthly Paradise, I. 390. 
3. To engage in the pursuit of; seek to overtake 
or come up with; pursue; chase: as, to follow 
game or an enemy. 
Whilst her neglected child holds her in chase, 
Cries to catch her whose busy care is bent 
to follow that which flies before her face. 
Shak., Sonnets, cxliii. 
4. To pursue as an object or purpose; strive 
after ; endeavor to obtain or attain to. 
Follow peace with all men. Heb. xii. 14. 
5. To keep up with, or with the course or 
progress of; observe or comprehend the se- 
quence or connecting links of: as, to follow an 
argument, or the plot of a play. 6. To watch 
or regard the movements, progress, or course 
of: as, to follow a person with the eye. 
He followed with his eyes the fleeting shade. Dryden. 
Is there not one face you study? One figure whose 
movements you follow with, at least, curiosity? 
Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, xix. 
follow-board 
7. To accept as a leader or guide; be led or 
guided by ; accompany ; hence, to adhere to, as 
disciples to a master or his teachings; accept 
as authority ; adopt the opinions, cause, or side 
of. 
The house of Judah followed David. -1 Sum. ii. 10. 
A youngman of unblemished character [Gladstone], . . . 
the rising hope of those stern and unbending Tories who 
follow ... a leader whose experience and eloquence are 
indispensable to them. 
Macaulay, Gladstone on Church ami State. 
8. To conform to; comply with; take as a 
guide, example, or model : as, to follow the 
fashion; to follow advice or admonition. 
The commodiotisness of this invention caused all p;irt.s 
of Christendom to follow it. Hooker, Eccles. Polity, v. 80. 
It has often been alleged as an excuse for the misgov. 
eminent of her [Elizabeth's] successors that they ou\y fol- 
lowed her example. ilacaulay, Burlcigh. 
9. To engage in or be concerned with as a pur- 
suit; pursue the duties or requirements of; 
carry on the business of ; prosecute : as, to fol- 
low trade, a calling, or a profession; to follow 
the stage. 
I would I had bestowed that time in the tongues that I 
have in fencing, dancing, and bear-bating : O, had I but 
followed the arts ! Shak. , T. N. , 1. 3. 
In peace euery man follmned his building and planting. 
Quoted in Capt. John Smith's Works, II. 37. 
Women, girls, and boys often follow this occupation. 
E. W. Lane, Modern Egyptians, II. 110. 
10. To result from, as an effect from a cause 
or an inference from premises; come after as 
a result or consequence : as, poverty often fol- 
lows extravagance or idleness ; intemperance is 
often followed by disease. 
A duty well dlscharg'd Is never follow'd 
By sad repentance. 
Beau, and Fl., Thierry and Theodoret, i. 2. 
It is written in the eternal laws of the universe of God, 
that sin shall be followed by suffering. 
Gladstone, Might of Right, p. 278. 
Follow my leader, a game played by children, iu which 
each in turn does whatever another, called the leader, 
does, or suffers some specified penalty. To follow home, 
to follow up closely. 
The Prophet, having this fair opportunity, followed the 
blow he had given him so home that Ahab was not able 
to stand before him. Stillingjleet, Sermons, II. iv. 
To follow suit, (a) In card-playing, to play a card of the 
same suit as that first played. Hence (6) To follow the 
line of speech, argument, or conduct adopted by a prede- 
cessor. To followup, to pursue closely ; prosecute with 
vigor or promptness, as something already begun ; act upon 
with energy : as, to follow up an advantage. 
EE. intrans. 1. To come or go behind ; come 
in the wake or rear ; come next, or in natural 
sequence or order. 
loseph ferde bi-foren and the note folewede. 
Joseph ofAriinathie (E. E. T. S.), p. 2. 
When all these things are thus disposed and prepared, 
then follows the action of the war. Bacon, Fable of Perseus. 
The famine . . . shall/oWow close after you. Jer. xlii. 16. 
2. To result as an effect from a cause or an in- 
ference from premises; be a consequent: as, 
from such conduct great scandal is sure to fol- 
low ; the facts may be admitted, but the infer- 
ence drawn from them does not follow. 
This above all to thine own self be true ; 
And it must follow, as the night the day, 
Thou canst not then be false to any man. 
Shak., Hamlet, i. 3. 
In a short time it followed, that could not be had for a 
pound of Copper which before was sould vs for an ounce. 
Quoted in Capt. John Smith's Works, 1. 166. 
If he suspects me without cause, It follows that the best 
way of curing his jealousy is to give him reason for 't. 
Sheridan, School for Scandal, iv. 3. 
=Syn. Follotc, Succeed, Ensue. Follow and succeed, or 
succeed to, are applied to persons or things ; ensue, in mod- 
ern literature, to things only. Follow may denote the 
mere going in order in a track or line, and it commonly 
suggests that the things mentioned are near together. 
Succeed (transitive or intransitive), implying a regular 
series, denotes the being in the same place which an- 
other has held immediately before ; a crowd way follow & 
man, but only one person or event can succeed to another : 
upon the death of a sovereign his oldest son succeeds him 
and succeeds to the throne ; day/oMojrs night. To ensue is 
to follow close upon, to follow as the effect of some settled 
principle of order, to folloic by a necessary connection : 
as, nothing but suffering can ensue from such a course. 
I yield, I follow where heaven shows the way. Dryden. 
One sorrow never comes, but brings an heir, 
That may succeed as his inheritor. 
Shak., Pericles, i. 4. 
Then grave Clarissa graceful wav'd her fan ; 
Silence enm'd, and thus the nymph began. Pope. 
follow (fol'6), n. [< follow), .] In billiards, a 
stroke which causes the cue-ball to follow the 
object-ball after impact, 
follow-board (fol'6-bord), . In founding, the 
board on which the pattern for a mold is laid ; 
a molding-board. 
