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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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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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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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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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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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