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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. [1913 Webster] Friends daily flock. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] {Flocking fowl} (Zool.), the greater scaup duck. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Flock \Flock\, v. t. To flock to; to crowd. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Good fellows, trooping, flocked me so. --Taylor (1609). [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] I prythee, Tom, beat Cut's saddle, put a few flocks in the point [pommel]. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] {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. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] The heathen . . . came to Nicanor by flocks. --2 Macc. xiv. 14. [1913 Webster] 2. A Christian church or congregation; considered in their relation to the pastor, or minister in charge. [1913 Webster] As half amazed, half frighted all his flock. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [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"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money" [syn: {batch}, {deal}, {flock}, {good deal}, {great deal}, {hatful}, {heap}, {lot}, {mass}, {mess}, {mickle}, {mint}, {mountain}, {muckle}, {passel}, {peck}, {pile}, {plenty}, {pot}, {quite a little}, {raft}, {sight}, {slew}, {spate}, {stack}, {tidy sum}, {wad}] 4: an orderly crowd; "a troop of children" [syn: {troop}, {flock}] 5: a group of sheep or goats [syn: {flock}, {fold}] 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}, {flock}, {clump}]