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and fometimes giants in the world ; yet it does not follow 
that there muft be fuch in every age, nor in every coun¬ 
try. Temple. —To continue endeavours ; to perfevere.— 
Then fhall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord. 
Hof. 
u Follow love, and it will flee thee ; 
Flee love, and it will follow thee.” 
Tl'.e Latins fay, Novi ingenium vwlierum ; iwlunt ubi volis j 
ubi' nolis, cupiunt ultro. Ter. Experience often confirms 
the truth of this proverb ; whence a prudent man will 
take care not to be too eager in the purfuit of the object 
of his a fleet ion’s, or fuft'er a blind paflion to overcome his 
reafon ; for it at once renders him a dupe to the fex, and 
often lofes him the woman lie was anxious to gain. 
FOL'LOWER, f. One who comes after another; not 
before him, or fide by fide.—Little gallant, you were 
wont to be a follozoer ; but now you are a leader ; whether 
had you rather lead mine eyes, or eye your mailer’s heels ? 
Shakejpeare. 
No flop, no flay, but clouds of Land arife, 
Spurn’d and call backward on the follower’s eyes. Dryden. 
One who obferves a guide or leader.—The underftanding 
that Ihould be eyes to the blind faculty of the will, is 
blind itfelf; and fo brings all the inconveniencies that 
attend a blind follower under the conduft of a blind guide. 
South.— An attendant or dependant.—No follower but a 
friend. Pope. —An aflbeiate ; a companion : 
How accompanied, canft thou tell that ? 
■—With Poins, and other his continua 1 followers,. Skakefp. 
One under the command of another : 
And forc’d .Tineas, when his fliips were loll, 
To leave his followers on a foreign coaft. Dryden. 
A fcholar; an imitator; a copier.—Be ye followers of me, 
even as I am of Chrift. i Cor. xi. i .—The true profeflion 
of Chriftianity inviolably engages all its followers to do 
good to all men. Spratt. 
The ftudious head, or gen’rous mind. 
Follower of God, or friend of human kind. 
Poet or patriot, rofe but to reftore 
The faith and moral nature gave before. Pope. 
One of the fame fadlion or party. 
FOL'LOWFIELD, a townlhip of the American States, 
jn Walhington county, Pennfylvania. Eaft and Weft Fol- 
lowfield are alfo two townftiips, in Chefter county, Penn¬ 
fylvania. 
FOL'LY,/. [folic, Fr.] Want of underftanding; weak- 
nefs of intellect: 
This is folly childhood’s guide. 
This is childhood at her fide. Hawkefwortk. 
Criminal weaknefs; depravity of mind : 
Think’ft thou, that duty fliould have dread to fpeak, 
When povv’r to flattery bows ? To plainnefs honour 
Is bound, when majefty to folly falls. Shakefpeare. 
A£t of negligence or paflion unbecoming gravity or deep 
wifdom. ” In this fenfe it has a plural: 
Thy hum’rous vein, thy pleafing folly r 
Lies all neglected, all forgot. Prior. 
Leave fuch to trifle with more grace and eafe, 
'When folly pleafes, or whofe follies pleafe. Pope. 
FOLSOBAN'JA, a towm of Hungary: thirty-feven 
miles eaft-north-eaft of Zarmar. 
FO'LY, an illand of Ireland, in the river Lee, in the 
county of Cork : nine miles eaft of Cork. 
FOM-FiO'AM-TOUKA, a town of Chinefe Tartary, 
near a mountain of the fame name : feven miles north- 
weft of Tam-fan. 
FOM'AHAUT, or Fomalhaut, in aftronomy, a ftar 
of the firft magnitude in the water of the conftellation 
Aquarius, or in the mouth of the fouthern fi(h. Its lati- 
F O N 
tilde is 21 ° 6’ 28" fouth, and mean longitude to the be¬ 
ginning of 1760, n s o° 28' 55". 
FOM'BIO, a village of Italy, in the Lodefan, where 
a battle was fought between the French republican army 
and the Auftrians, in which the latter were defeated : 
their lofs was 500 men killed and prifoners, 300 liorfes, 
and a part of their baggage: fix miles north of Pavia, 
and fifteen fouth-fouth-eaft of'Lodi. 
To FOME'NT, v. a. [ Jomentor, Lat. fomenter, Fr.] To 
cherilh with heat: 
Every kind that lives, 
Fomented by his virtual power, and warm’d. Milton. 
To bathe with warm lotions.—Fie fomented the head with 
opiates to procure deep, and a folution of opium in water 
to foment the forehead. Arbuthnot. —To encourage ; to 
fupport; to cherifli.—They love their givings, and fo¬ 
ment their deeds no lefs than parents do their children. 
Wotton. —They are troubled with thofe ill humours, which 
they themfelves infufed and fomented in them. Locke. 
Blame then thyfelf, as reafon’s law requires, 
Since nature gave, and thou fornent’Jl my fires. Dryden. 
FOMENTA'TION, f. [fomentation, Fr.] A fomenta¬ 
tion is partial bathing, called alfo duping, which is ap¬ 
plying hot flannels to any part, dipped in medicated de- 
co£tions, whereby the fleams breathe into tlie parts, and 
difeufs obftrufted humours. Quincy.—Fomentation calleth 
forth the humour by vapours; but yet, in regard of the 
way made by the poultis, draweth gently the humours 
out: for it is a gentle fomentation, and hath withal a mix¬ 
ture of fome ftupefactive. Bacon. —The lotion prepared 
to foment the parts.—The medicines were prepared by 
the phyficians, and the lotions or fomentations by the nurfes. 
Arbuthnot. 
FOMEN'TER,/*. One that foments; an encourager ; 
a fupporter.—Thefe fatal diftempers, as they did much 
hurt to the body politic at home, being like humours 
ftirred in the natural without evacuation, fo did they pro¬ 
duce difadvantageous effedls abroad ; and better had it 
been, that the raifers and fomenters of them had never 
fprung up. Howel. 
FO'MES,/. [from faveo, Lat. to cherilh, as fuel does 
fire.] With phyficians, the caufe or matter which che- 
rifhes and continues the difeafe. Subflances receiving 
infection, and retaining it, contain an impregnating mat¬ 
ter called fomites. 
FON , f. [Scotch.] A fool; an idiot. A word now ohm 
folete : 
Sicker I hold him for a greater fon. 
That love’s the tiling he cannot purchafe. Spenfer. 
FON-JUN, a town of China, of the third rank, in the 
province of Pe-tche-li: twenty miles fouth-fotith-eaft of 
Tfun-hoa. 
FONCQUEVIL'LERS, a town of France, in the de¬ 
partment of the Straits of Calais, and chief place of a 
canton, in the diftrift of Bapaume : four leagues weft of 
Bapaume. 
FOND, f. [fon, Scottifli : etymology uncertain. To 
fonne is in Chaucer to dote, to be foolilh.] Foolilh ; fil¬ 
ly ; indifereet; imprudent; injudicious.—This is fond, 
becaufe it is the way to cheat thyfelf. Tillotfon. —That 
the Grecians or Gentiles ever did think it ajond or un¬ 
likely way to feek men’s converlion by fermons, we have 
not heard. Hooker. 
Tell thefe fad women, 
’Tis jond to wail inevitable ftrokes, 
As ’tis to laugh at them. Shakefpeare. 
Trifling; valued by folly : 
Nor with fond ftiekles of the tefied gold, 
Or ftones, whofe rate are either rich or poor 
As fancy values them. Shakefpeare. 
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