Hypertext Webster Gateway: "flock"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
The heathen . . . came to Nicanor by flocks. --2
Macc. xiv. 14.
2. 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Flock \Flock\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Flocked}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Flocking}.]
To gather in companies or crowds.
Friends daily flock. --Dryden.
{Flocking fowl} (Zo["o]l.), the greater scaup duck.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Flock \Flock\, v. t.
To flock to; to crowd. [Obs.]
Good fellows, trooping, flocked me so. --Taylor
(1609).
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
I prythee, Tom, beat Cut's saddle, put a few flocks
in the point [pommel]. --Shak.
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.
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.
{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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
flock
n 1: a church congregation guided by a pastor
2: a group of birds
3: (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"; "it must
have cost plenty" [syn: {batch}, {deal}, {good deal}, {great
deal}, {hatful}, {heap}, {lot}, {mass}, {mess}, {mickle},
{mint}, {muckle}, {peck}, {pile}, {plenty}, {pot}, {quite
a little}, {raft}, {sight}, {slew}, {spate}, {stack}, {tidy
sum}, {wad}, {whole lot}, {whole slew}]
4: an orderly crowd; "a troop of children" [syn: {troop}]
5: a group of sheep or goats
v 1: move as a crowd or in a group; "Tourists flocked to the
shrine where the statue was said to have shed tears"
2: come together as in a cluster or flock; "The poets
constellate in this town every summer" [syn: {cluster}, {constellate},
{clump}]
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