Emily Dickinson Lexicon

FOL'LOW, v.i.

1. To come after another. The famine – shall follow close after you. Jer. xlii.
2. To attend; to accompany. Shak.
3. To be posterior in time; as following ages.
4. To be consequential, as effect to cause. From such measures, great mischiefs must follow.
5. To result, as an inference. The facts may be admitted, but the inference drawn from them does not follow. To follow on, to continue pursuit or endeavor; to persevere. Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord. Hosea vi.