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Flock
FLOCK, n. [L. floccus. It is the same radically as flake, and applied to wool or hair, we write it lock. See Flake.]
1. A company or collection; applied to sheep and other small animals. A flock of sheep answers to a herd of larger cattle. But the word may sometimes perhaps be applied to larger beasts, and in the plural, flocks may include all kinds of domesticated animals.
2. A company or collection of fowls of any kind, and when applied to birds on the wing, a flight; as a flock of wild-geese; a flock of ducks; a flock of blackbirds. in the United States, flocks of wild-pigeons sometimes darken the air.
3. A body or crowd of people. [little used. Gr. a troop.]
4. A lock of wool or hair. Hence, a flockbed.
FLOCK, v.i. To gather in companies or crowds; applied to men or other animals. People flock together. They flock to the play-house.
Friends daily flock.
flock appears in definitions for these words:
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All Amid Artotyrite Bat Bell Bell-wether Bergamot Bevy Booley Cluster Clustering Constraint Covey Crook Disdain Drove Ensample Fat Feed Fetch Flake Fleecy Flight Flocculence Flock Fly Fold For Ganza Gleam Gregal Gregarious Gregariously Gregariousness Herd Hyena Keep Landscape Lawn Lock Low Nomadize Nye Pastor Penguin Presbyter Quicken Racket Require Rich Scene Segregate Settlement Solitarily Solitary Step Stray Tend Tomentous Trip Vampire Warp Watch
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