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Definition of 'flock'

noun

A church congregation guided by a pastor

noun

A group of birds

noun

(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money" [syn: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad]

noun

An orderly crowd; "a troop of children" [syn: troop, flock]

noun

A group of sheep or goats [syn: flock, fold]

verb

Move as a crowd or in a group; "Tourists flocked to the shrine where the statue was said to have shed tears"

verb

Come together as in a cluster or flock; "The poets constellate in this town every summer" [syn: cluster, constellate, flock, clump]

From: GCIDE

From: GCIDE

Flock \Flock\, n. [OE. flokke; cf. D. vlok, G. flocke, OHG. floccho, Icel. fl[=o]ki, perh. akin to E. flicker, flacker, or cf. L. floccus, F. floc.]
1. A lock of wool or hair. [1913 Webster]
I prythee, Tom, beat Cut's saddle, put a few flocks in the point [pommel]. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
2. Woolen or cotton refuse (sing. or pl.), old rags, etc., reduced to a degree of fineness by machinery, and used for stuffing unpholstered furniture. [1913 Webster]
3. 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. [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]

From: GCIDE

Flock \Flock\, n. [AS. flocc flock, company; akin to Icel. flokkr crowd, Sw. flock, Dan. flok; prob. orig. used of flows, and akin to E. fly. See Fly.]
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. [1913 Webster]
The heathen . . . came to Nicanor by flocks. --2 Macc. xiv. 14. [1913 Webster]
2. A Christian church or congregation; considered in their relation to the pastor, or minister in charge. [1913 Webster]
As half amazed, half frighted all his flock. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]

From: GCIDE

Flock \Flock\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Flocked; p. pr. & vb. n. Flocking.] To gather in companies or crowds. [1913 Webster]
Friends daily flock. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
Flocking fowl (Zool.), the greater scaup duck. [1913 Webster]

From: GCIDE

Flock \Flock\, v. t. 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. [1913 Webster]