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

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

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

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
see also:
flocked flocking flocking fowl 

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

flock \flock\, v. t.
   to flock to; to crowd. obs.
   1913 webster

         good fellows, trooping, flocked me so.   --taylor
                                                  1609.
   1913 webster

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

flock \flock\, n. oe. flokke; cf. d. vlok, g. flocke, ohg.
   floccho, icel. fl=oki, 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
see also:
flock bed flock paper 

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

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
see also:
fly 

[6] : WordNet (r) 2.0

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
see also:
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 
troop cluster constellate clump 

[7] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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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