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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Flock \Flock\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Flocked}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Flocking}.]
     To gather in companies or crowds.
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           Friends daily flock.                     --Dryden.
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     {Flocking fowl} (Zool.), the greater scaup duck.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Flock \Flock\, v. t.
     To flock to; to crowd. [Obs.]
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           Good fellows, trooping, flocked me so.   --Taylor
                                                    (1609).
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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.
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              I prythee, Tom, beat Cut's saddle, put a few flocks
              in the point [pommel].                --Shak.
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     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.
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     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.
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     {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.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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.
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              The heathen . . . came to Nicanor by flocks. --2
                                                    Macc. xiv. 14.
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     2. A Christian church or congregation; considered in their
        relation to the pastor, or minister in charge.
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              As half amazed, half frighted all his flock.
                                                    --Tennyson.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  130 Moby Thesaurus words for "flock":
     a mass of, a world of, army, assemble, assembly, band,
     band together, bang, bangs, bevy, body, brethren, bunch, charm,
     chip, churchgoers, class, cloud, cluster, clutter, cohue, collect,
     collection, colony, come together, company, congregate,
     congregation, convoy, covey, crowd, crush, dandruff, deluge, drift,
     drive, drove, fetlock, flake, fleck, fleet, flight, floccule,
     flocculus, flocks, flood, fold, forelock, fringe, gaggle, galaxy,
     gam, gang, gather, gathering, go, go together, group, hail, heap,
     herd, herd together, hive, horde, host, jam, kennel, laity,
     large amount, laymen, legion, litter, lots, many, mass, masses of,
     meet, minyan, mob, muchness, multitude, murmuration, nest,
     nonclerics, nonordained persons, number, numbers, pack, panoply,
     paring, parish, parishioners, people, plague, plurality, pod, pour,
     press, pride, quantities, quantity, quiff, quite a few, rabble,
     rout, ruck, scale, school, scores, scurf, seculars, set, shaving,
     sheep, shoal, skein, skulk, sloth, society, spate, spring, swarm,
     throng, tidy sum, trip, troop, troupe, tuft, watch, worlds of
  
  

















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