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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.
1913 Definition
Flock (flock)
n.(?)
Flock
[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.

  3. To gather in companies or crowds.

    Friends daily flock. Dryden.

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

  4. To flock to; to crowd.
    [Obs.]

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

  5. A lock of wool or hair.

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

  6. Woolen or cotton refuse (sing. or pl.), old rags, etc., reduced to a degree of fineness by machinery, and used for stuffing unpholstered furniture.
  7. 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.

  8. 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.
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Noah Says...
The brief exposition of the constitution of the United States, will unfold to young persons the principles of republican government; and it is the sincere desire of the writer that our citizens should early understand that the genuine source of correct republican principles is the Bible, particularly the New Testament or the Christian religion.
 History of the United States :: 1832 




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