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noun

Flock n.

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. "The heathen... came to Nicanor by flocks."

A Christian church or congregation; considered in their relation to the pastor, or minister in charge. "As half amazed, half frighted all his flock."

Flock n.

A lock of wool or hair. "I prythee, Tom, beat Cut's saddle, put a few flocks in the point (pommel)."

Woolen or cotton refuse (sing. or pl.), old rags, etc., reduced to a degree of fineness by machinery, and used for stuffing unpholstered furniture.

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."

Flock paper, paper coated with flock fixed with glue or size.

verb

Flock v. t. To flock to; to crowd. (Obs.) "Good fellows, trooping, flocked me so."

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.

Flock v. i. (past & past part. flocked; pres. part. flocking) To gather in companies or crowds. "Friends daily flock."

Flocking fowl (Zool.), the greater scaup duck.

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"Flock" Quotes from Famous Books

... conversational clucking and quacking was a pleasure to hear. When, out of curiosity, we fired a revolver shot, they rose in the air with a roar like that of a great waterfall, and their crossing lines of flight in the sky was like the multitude of midges in the sun. I remember one flock of snow-white geese that turned and wheeled, alternately throwing their bodies in shadow or in the sunlight, ...

— Gold • Stewart White

... "A large flock of gannets was observed at daylight to issue out of the great bight to the southward; and they were followed by such a number of sooty petrels as we had never seen equalled. There was a stream of from fifty to eighty yards in depth ...

— The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders • Ernest Scott

... and if, like the holy martyrs, persecuted by heathen emperors, they were obliged to offer the adorable sacrifice on a rock or in a poor hut, it was none the less acceptable to God, and none the less efficacious to the worshippers. These shepherds of the flock were specially obnoxious to the Government. They preached patience, but they were accused of preaching rebellion; they confirmed their people in their faith, but this was supposed to be equivalent to exciting them to resist their oppressors. The three fathers were at ...

— An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 • Mary Frances Cusack

... in a softly, innocent prattle, but otherwise are too much tongue-tied, and want the other's most acceptable embellishment of a perpetual talkativeness. Add to this, that old men love to be playing with children, and children delight as much in them, to verify the proverb, that Birds of a feather flock together. And indeed what difference can be discerned between them, but that the one is more furrowed with wrinkles, and has seen a little more of the world than the other? For otherwise their whitish hair, their want of teeth, their smallness ...

— In Praise of Folly - Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts • Desiderius Erasmus

... the North, he helped form the coterie of writers who followed the leadership of that burly and sometimes burry old Mentor, William Gilmore Simms. The young poet seems not to have been among the docile members of the flock, for when Timrod's first volume of poems was published Hayne wrote to Simms, requesting him to write a notice of Timrod's work, not that he (Timrod) deserved it of Simms, but that he (Hayne) asked it of him. It may be that Timrod's recognition of the fact ...

— Literary Hearthstones of Dixie • La Salle Corbell Pickett

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