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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Flock \Flock\, noun [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.
The heathen . . . came to Nicanor by flocks. --2 Macc. xiv. 14.
2. A Christian church or congregation; considered in their relation to the pastor, or minister in charge.
As half amazed, half frighted all his flock. --Tennyson.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Flock \Flock\, verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Flocked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Flocking}.] To gather in companies or crowds.
Friends daily flock. --Dryden.
{Flocking fowl} (Zo["o]l.), the greater scaup duck.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Flock \Flock\, verb (used with an object) To flock to; to crowd. [Obs.]
Good fellows, trooping, flocked me so. --Taylor (1609).
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Flock \Flock\, noun [OE. flokke; cf. D. vlok, G. flocke, OHG. floccho, Icel. fl[=o]ki, perh. akin to E. flicker, flacker, or cf. L. floccus, F. floc.]
1. A lock of wool or hair.
I prythee, Tom, beat Cut's saddle, put a few flocks in the point [pommel]. --Shak.
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.
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.
{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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Flock \Flock\, verb (used with an object) 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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
flock
noun
1: a church congregation guided by a pastor
2: a group of birds
3: (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"; "it must have cost plenty" [syn: {batch}, {deal}, {good deal}, {great deal}, {hatful}, {heap}, {lot}, {mass}, {mess}, {mickle}, {mint}, {muckle}, {peck}, {pile}, {plenty}, {pot}, {quite a little}, {raft}, {sight}, {slew}, {spate}, {stack}, {tidy sum}, {wad}, {whole lot}, {whole slew}]
4: an orderly crowd; "a troop of children" [syn: {troop}]
5: a group of sheep or goats
verb
1: move as a crowd or in a group; "Tourists flocked to the shrine where the statue was said to have shed tears"
2: come together as in a cluster or flock; "The poets constellate in this town every summer" [syn: {cluster}, {constellate}, {clump}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
130 Moby Thesaurus words for "flock": a mass of, a world of, army, assemble, assembly, band, band together, bang, bangs, bevy, body, brethren, bunch, charm, chip, churchgoers, class, cloud, cluster, clutter, cohue, collect, collection, colony, come together, company, congregate, congregation, convoy, covey, crowd, crush, dandruff, deluge, drift, drive, drove, fetlock, flake, fleck, fleet, flight, floccule, flocculus, flocks, flood, fold, forelock, fringe, gaggle, galaxy, gam, gang, gather, gathering, go, go together, group, hail, heap, herd, herd together, hive, horde, host, jam, kennel, laity, large amount, laymen, legion, litter, lots, many, mass, masses of, meet, minyan, mob, muchness, multitude, murmuration, nest, nonclerics, nonordained persons, number, numbers, pack, panoply, paring, parish, parishioners, people, plague, plurality, pod, pour, press, pride, quantities, quantity, quiff, quite a few, rabble, rout, ruck, scale, school, scores, scurf, seculars, set, shaving, sheep, shoal, skein, skulk, sloth, society, spate, spring, swarm, throng, tidy sum, trip, troop, troupe, tuft, watch, worlds of
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