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Meaning Of Flock
n.
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.
n.
A Christian church or congregation; considered in their
relation to the pastor, or minister in charge.
v. i.
To gather in companies or crowds.
v. t.
To flock to; to crowd.
n.
A lock of wool or hair.
n.
Woolen or cotton refuse (sing. / pl.), old rags, etc.,
reduced to a degree of fineness by machinery, and used for stuffing
unpholstered furniture.
sing. / pl.
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.
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.