Part 4399

<hw>Flock</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[AS. <ets>flocc</ets> flock, company; akin to Icel. <ets>flokkr</ets> crowd, Sw. <ets>flock</ets>, Dan. <ets>flok</ets>; prob. orig. used of flows, and akin to E. <ets>fly</ets>. See <er>Fly</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>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>as, a <ex>flock</ex> of ravenous fowl</as>.</def>

<i>Milton.</i>

<blockquote>The heathen . . . came to Nicanor by <b>flocks</b>. <i>2 Macc. xiv. 14.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A Christian church or congregation; considered in their relation to the pastor, or minister in charge.</def>

<blockquote>As half amazed, half frighted all his <b>flock</b>. <i>Tennyson.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Flock</h1> <Xpage=572>

<hw>Flock</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Flocked</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Flocking</er>.]</wordforms> <def>To gather in companies or crowds.</def>

<blockquote>Friends daily <b>flock</b>. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Flocking fowl</col> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld>, <cd>the greater scaup duck.</cd></cs>

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<hw>Flock</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To flock to; to crowd.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>Good fellows, trooping, <b>flocked</b> me so. <i>Taylor (1609).</i></blockquote>

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<hw>Flock</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>flokke</ets>; cf. D. <ets>vlok</ets>, G. <ets>flocke</ets>, OHG. <ets>floccho</ets>, Icel. <ets>fl<?/ki</ets>, perh. akin to E. <ets>flicker</ets>, <ets>flacker</ets>, or cf. L. <ets>floccus</ets>, F. <ets>floc</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A lock of wool or hair.</def>

<blockquote>I prythee, Tom, beat Cut's saddle, put a few <b>flocks</b> in the point [pommel]. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Woolen or cotton refuse (<tt>sing. &or; pl.</tt>), old rags, etc., reduced to a degree of fineness by machinery, and used for stuffing unpholstered furniture.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>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.</def>

<cs><col>Flock bed</col>, <cd>a bed filled with flocks or locks of coarse wool, or pieces of cloth cut up fine. "Once a <i>flock bed<i>, but repaired with straw."</cd> <i>Pope.</i> -- <col>Flock paper</col>, <cd>paper coated with flock fixed with glue or size.</cd></cs>

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<hw>Flock</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>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.</def>

<h1>Flockling</h1> <Xpage=572>

<hw>Flock"ling</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A lamb.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Brome (1659).</i>

<h1>Flockly</h1> <Xpage=572>

<hw>Flock"ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In flocks; in crowds.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Flockmel</h1> <Xpage=572>

<hw>Flock"mel</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>adv.</tt> <ety>[AS. <ets>flocm<?/lum</ets>. See <er>Meal</er> part.]</ety> <def>In a flock; in a body.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>That <b>flockmel</b> on a day they to him went. <i>Chaucer.</i></blockquote>