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FLOCK, n. [L. floccus. It is the same radically as flake, and applied to wool or hair, we write it lock. See Flake.]

1. A company or collection; applied to sheep and other small animals. A flock of sheep answers to a herd of larger cattle. But the word may sometimes perhaps be applied to larger beasts, and in the plural, flocks may include all kinds of domesticated animals.

2. A company or collection of fowls of any kind, and when applied to birds on the wing, a flight; as a flock of wild-geese; a flock of ducks; a flock of blackbirds. in the United States, flocks of wild-pigeons sometimes darken the air.

3. A body or crowd of people. [little used. Gr. a troop.]

4. A lock of wool or hair. Hence, a flockbed.

FLOCK, v.i. To gather in companies or crowds; applied to men or other animals. People flock together. They flock to the play-house.

Friends daily flock.


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FLOCK, n. [L. floccus. It is the same radically as flake, and applied to wool or hair, we write it lock. See Flake.]

1. A company or collection; applied to sheep and other small animals. A flock of sheep answers to a herd of larger cattle. But the word may sometimes perhaps be applied to larger beasts, and in the plural, flocks may include all kinds of domesticated animals.

2. A company or collection of fowls of any kind, and when applied to birds on the wing, a flight; as a flock of wild-geese; a flock of ducks; a flock of blackbirds. in the United States, flocks of wild-pigeons sometimes darken the air.

3. A body or crowd of people. [little used. Gr. a troop.]

4. A lock of wool or hair. Hence, a flockbed.

FLOCK, v.i. To gather in companies or crowds; applied to men or other animals. People flock together. They flock to the play-house.

Friends daily flock.

FLOCK, n. [Sax. floce; L. floccus; G. flocke; D. vlock; Dan. flok; Sw. flock, a crowd; ulle-lock, wool-lock; Gr. πλοκη, πλοκος; Russ. klok. It is the same radically as flake and applied to wool or hair, we write it lock. See Flake.]

  1. A company or collection; applied to sheep and other small animals. A flock of sheep answers to a herd of larger cattle. But the word may sometimes perhaps be applied to larger beasts; and in the plural, flocks may include all kinds of domesticated animals.
  2. A company or collection of fowls of any kind, and when applied to birds on the wing, a flight; as, a flock of wild-geese; a flock of ducks; a flock of blackbirds. In the United States, flocks of wild pigeons sometimes darken the air.
  3. A body or crowd of people. [Little used. Qu. Gr. λοχος, a troop.]
  4. A lock of wool or hair. Hence, a flock bed.

FLOCK, v.i.

To gather in companies or crowds; applied to men or other animals. People flock together. They flock the play-house. Friends daily flock. Dryden.


Flock
  1. A company or collection of living creatures; -- especially applied to sheep and birds, rarely to persons or (except in the plural) to cattle and other large animals; as, a flock of ravenous fowl.

    Milton.

    The heathen . . . came to Nicanor by flocks. 2 Macc. xiv. 14.

  2. To gather in companies or crowds.

    Friends daily flock. Dryden.

    Flocking fowl (Zoö]l.), the greater scaup duck.

  3. To flock to; to crowd.

    [Obs.]

    Good fellows, trooping, flocked me so. Taylor (1609).

  4. A lock of wool or hair.

    I prythee, Tom, beat Cut's saddle, put a few flocks in the point [pommel]. Shak.

  5. To coat with flock, as wall paper; to roughen the surface of (as glass) so as to give an appearance of being covered with fine flock.
  6. A Christian church or congregation; considered in their relation to the pastor, or minister in charge.

    As half amazed, half frighted all his flock. Tennyson.

  7. Woolen or cotton refuse (sing. or pl.), old rags, etc., reduced to a degree of fineness by machinery, and used for stuffing unpholstered furniture.
  8. Very fine, sifted, woolen refuse, especially that from shearing the nap of cloths, used as a coating for wall paper to give it a velvety or clothlike appearance; also, the dust of vegetable fiber used for a similar purpose.

    Flock bed, a bed filled with flocks or locks of coarse wool, or pieces of cloth cut up fine. "Once a flock bed, but repaired with straw." Pope. -- Flock paper, paper coated with flock fixed with glue or size.

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Flock

FLOCK, noun [Latin floccus. It is the same radically as flake, and applied to wool or hair, we write it lock. See Flake.]

1. A company or collection; applied to sheep and other small animals. A flock of sheep answers to a herd of larger cattle. But the word may sometimes perhaps be applied to larger beasts, and in the plural, flocks may include all kinds of domesticated animals.

2. A company or collection of fowls of any kind, and when applied to birds on the wing, a flight; as a flock of wild-geese; a flock of ducks; a flock of blackbirds. in the United States, flocks of wild-pigeons sometimes darken the air.

3. A body or crowd of people. [little used. Gr. a troop.]

4. A lock of wool or hair. Hence, a flockbed.

FLOCK, verb intransitive To gather in companies or crowds; applied to men or other animals. People flock together. They flock to the play-house.

Friends daily flock

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