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Follower

One who follows; a pursuer; an attendant; a disciple; a dependent associate; a retainer.

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Actor 76% connected

One who acts, or takes part in any affair; a doer.

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Doer 76% connected

One who does; one performs or executes; one who is wont and ready to act; an actor; an agent.

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Traveler 76% connected

One who travels; one who has traveled much.

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Traveller 76% connected

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Worker 76% connected

One who, or that which, works; a laborer; a performer; as, a worker in brass.

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Adherent 76% connected

Sticking; clinging; adhering.

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Adulator 76% connected

A servile or hypocritical flatterer.

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Buff 76% connected

A sort of leather, prepared from the skin of the buffalo, dressed with oil, like chamois; also, the skins of oxen, elks, and other animals, dressed i…

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Cartesian 76% connected

Of or pertaining to the French philosopher Rene Descartes, or his philosophy.

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Chaser 76% connected

One who or that which chases; a pursuer; a driver; a hunter.

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Devotee 76% connected

One who is wholly devoted; esp., one given wholly to religion; one who is superstitiously given to religious duties and ceremonies; a bigot.

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Disciple 76% connected

One who receives instruction from another; a scholar; a learner; especially, a follower who has learned to believe in the truth of the doctrine of hi…

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Fan 76% connected

An instrument used for producing artificial currents of air, by the wafting or revolving motion of a broad surface

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Feudatory 76% connected

A tenant or vassal who held his lands of a superior on condition of feudal service; the tenant of a feud or fief.

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Flatterer 76% connected

One who flatters.

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Flunky 76% connected

A contemptuous name for a liveried servant or a footman.

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Hanger-on 76% connected

One who hangs on, or sticks to, a person, place, or service; a dependent; one who adheres to others' society longer than he is wanted.

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Hegelian 76% connected

Pertaining to Hegelianism.

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Inferior 76% connected

Lower in place, rank, excellence, etc.; less important or valuable; subordinate; underneath; beneath.

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Janissary 76% connected

See Janizary.

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Jeffersonian 76% connected

Pertaining to, or characteristic of, Thomas Jefferson or his policy or political doctrines.

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Lamarckian 76% connected

Pertaining to, or involved in, the doctrines of Lamarckianism.

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Leech 76% connected

See 2d Leach.

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Liege 76% connected

Sovereign; independent; having authority or right to allegiance; as, a liege lord.

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Lover 76% connected

One who loves; one who is in love; -- usually limited, in the singular, to a person of the male sex.

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Mohammedan 76% connected

Of or pertaining to Mohammed, or the religion and institutions founded by Mohammed.

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Muhammadan 76% connected

Alt. of Muhammedan

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Muhammedan 76% connected

Mohammedan.

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Myrmidon 76% connected

One of a fierce tribe or troop who accompained Achilles, their king, to the Trojan war.

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Nestorian 76% connected

An adherent of Nestorius, patriarch of Constantinople to the fifth century, who has condemned as a heretic for maintaining that the divine and the hu…

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Newtonian 76% connected

Of or pertaining to Sir Isaac Newton, or his discoveries.

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Parasite 76% connected

One who frequents the tables of the rich, or who lives at another's expense, and earns his welcome by flattery; a hanger-on; a toady; a sycophant.

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Planet 76% connected

A celestial body which revolves about the sun in an orbit of a moderate degree of eccentricity. It is distinguished from a comet by the absence of a…

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Pursuer 76% connected

One who pursues or chases; one who follows in haste, with a view to overtake.

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Regular 76% connected

Conformed to a rule; agreeable to an established rule, law, principle, or type, or to established customary forms; normal; symmetrical; as, a regular…

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Respecter 76% connected

One who respects.

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Satellite 76% connected

An attendant attached to a prince or other powerful person; hence, an obsequious dependent.

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Shadow 76% connected

Shade within defined limits; obscurity or deprivation of light, apparent on a surface, and representing the form of the body which intercepts the ray…

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Sheep 76% connected

Any one of several species of ruminants of the genus Ovis, native of the higher mountains of both hemispheres, but most numerous in Asia.

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Sponge 76% connected

Any one of numerous species of Spongiae, or Porifera. See Illust. and Note under Spongiae.

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Sponger 76% connected

One who sponges, or uses a sponge.

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Submitter 76% connected

One who submits.

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Tail 76% connected

Limitation; abridgment.

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Vassal 76% connected

The grantee of a fief, feud, or fee; one who holds land of superior, and who vows fidelity and homage to him; a feudatory; a feudal tenant.

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Follow 74% connected

To go or come after; to move behind in the same path or direction; hence, to go with (a leader, guide, etc.); to accompany; to attend.

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Follow 74% connected

To go or come after; to move behind in the same path or direction; hence, to go with (a leader, guide, etc.); to accompany; to attend.

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Pursue 74% connected

To follow with a view to overtake; to follow eagerly, or with haste; to chase; as, to pursue a hare.

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Pursue 74% connected

To follow with a view to overtake; to follow eagerly, or with haste; to chase; as, to pursue a hare.

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Leader 94% connected

One who, or that which, leads or conducts; a guide; a conductor.

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Leader 94% connected

One who, or that which, leads or conducts; a guide; a conductor.

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