flock

adv. In flocks; in crowds. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

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 ]

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 ]

n. [ OE. flokke; cf. D. vlok, G. flocke, OHG. floccho, Icel. flōki, 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 ]

v. t. To flock to; to crowd. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Good fellows, trooping, flocked me so. Taylor (1609). [ 1913 Webster ]

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 ]

adv. [ AS. flocm&unr_;lum. See Meal part. ] In a flock; in a body. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

That flockmel on a day they to him went. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]