flock

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  a Flock of Goats and the Song Of A Goatherd
• WordNet 3.6
  • v flock come together as in a cluster or flock "The poets constellate in this town every summer"
  • v flock move as a crowd or in a group "Tourists flocked to the shrine where the statue was said to have shed tears"
  • n flock a group of birds
  • n flock a group of sheep or goats
  • n flock a church congregation guided by a pastor
  • n flock an orderly crowd "a troop of children"
  • n flock (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"
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GUARDING THE FLOCKS AND HERDS

Joan leading her flock of sheep

• Interesting fact: In 1953, racecar driver Tim Flock raced at Nascar with a monkey in the seat beside him
• • Flock A Christian church or congregation; considered in their relation to the pastor, or minister in charge. "As half amazed, half frighted all his flock ."
  • Flock 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. "The heathen . . . came to Nicanor by flocks ."
  • Flock A lock of wool or hair. "I prythee, Tom, beat Cut's saddle, put a few flocks in the point [pommel]."
  • v. t Flock 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.
  • v. t Flock To flock to; to crowd. "Good fellows, trooping, flocked me so."
  • v. i Flock To gather in companies or crowds. "Friends daily flock ."
  • Flock 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.
  • Flock 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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• Interesting fact: In Scituate, Rhode Island it is illegal to keep a flock of chickens in your motorhome if you live in a trailer park.
• • n flock A company or band (of persons). The word is now seldom used with reference to persons, except as in the ecclesiastical or religious sense (def. 3), which is a figurative use of sense 2.
  • n flock A company of animals, in modern use especially of sheep, goats, or birds. Among sportsmen it is applied especially to companies of wild ducks, geese, and shore-birds.
  • n flock Hence In Biblical and ecclesiastical use, a company of persons united in one church, under a leader called, by the same figure, the shepherd or pastor; a congregation, with regard to its minister.
  • n flock Synonyms Flock, Gaggle, Covey, Pack, Gang, Wisp, Bevy, Sedge, Brood. Flock is the popular term for birds of many sorts; it is applied by sportsmen especially to wild ducks, geese, and shore-birds. Herbert applies gaggle to geese; Colquhoun applies it to geese swimming; it is not used in the United States. Covey is applied to several kinds of birds, especially partridges and pinnated grouse. Pack is applied to the pinnated grouse in the late season when they go in “packs” or large flocks. Gang is applied to wild turkeys, wisp to snipe, bevy to quail, sedge to herons. Brood applies to the mother and her young till the latter are old enough for game.
  • flock To gather in a flock, company, or crowd; go in a flock or crowd: as, birds of a feather flock together; the people flocked together in the market-place.
  • flock To gather into a flock or company.
  • flock To crowd.
  • n flock A lock or tuft of wool or hair.
  • n flock Finely powdered wool or cloth, used, when colored, for making flock-paper and also formerly as shoddy. See extract under flock-powder.
  • n flock The refuse of wool, or the shearings of woolen goods, or old cloth or rags torn or broken up by the machine called the devil, used for stuffing mattresses, upholstering furniture, etc.
  • n flock Same as flock-bed.
  • n flock plural Dregs; sediment; specks; motes.
  • n flock In chem., a loose light mass of any substance: usually applied only to such masses as they appear suspended in a solution.
  • flock To cover with flock; distribute flock on (a prepared surface of cloth or paper). E. H. Knight. See flock, n., 2.
  • n flock A hurdle: same as flake.
  • flock To flout; jeer.
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• • n Flock flok a company of animals, as sheep, birds, &c.: a company generally: a Christian congregation
  • v.i Flock to gather in flocks or in crowds
  • n Flock flok a lock of wool
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• Winston Churchill

  

  “Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.”
• Publius Cornelius Tacitus

  

  “All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.”
• Aaron Hill

  

  “Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.”
• Miguel De Cervantes

  

  “'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.”
• H. Ross Perot

  

  “Eagles don't flock, you have to find them one at a time.”
• Proverb

  

  “Birds of a feather flock together.”

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