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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

... cannot be said now, after the flagrant part which Mr. John Wesley took against our American brethren, when, in his own name, he threw amongst his enthusiastick flock, the very individual combustibles of Dr. Johnson's Taxation no Tyranny; and after the intolerant spirit which he manifested against our fellow-christians of the Roman Catholick Communion, for which that able champion, Father O'Leary, has given him ...

— Life Of Johnson, Volume 5 • Boswell

... the Indian languages, and sent out as missionaries for the conversion of the natives. [23] Some of them, as Father Boil and his brethren, seem, indeed, to have been more concerned for the welfare of their own bodies, than for the souls of their benighted flock. But others, imbued with a better spirit, wrought in the good work with disinterested zeal, and, if we may credit their accounts, with ...

— The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella The Catholic, V2 • William H. Prescott

... property, and, as he was a bachelor, it would come to him in case the broker was removed by any sudden dispensation. What he really feared was that this money might be fooled away in high living and speculation. And so he had banged away into the middle of the flock, hoping to bring down those two birds. Now that it began to look as if he might kill off the whole bunch he started ...

— Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son • George Horace Lorimer

... would cease sending forth her dusters to the spring. They still crowd out so: this flock here, that there, belaboring The ...

— The Best Letters of Charles Lamb • Charles Lamb

... in some respects the most perfect of his works, the 'Scarlet Letter.' There, again, we have the spectacle of a man tortured by a life-long repentance. The Puritan Clergyman, reverenced as a saint by all his flock, conscious of a sin which, once revealed, will crush him to the earth, watched with a malignant purpose by the husband whom he has injured, unable to summon up the moral courage to tear off the veil, and make the only atonement in his power, is ...

— Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) • Leslie Stephen

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