Flock
[flɒk] or [flɑk]
Definition
(noun.) a group of birds.
(noun.) a group of sheep or goats.
(noun.) a church congregation guided by a pastor.
(verb.) move as a crowd or in a group; 'Tourists flocked to the shrine where the statue was said to have shed tears'.
Checker: Marge--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Collection (of sheep, &c.), company.[2]. Lock of wool.
v. n. Congregate, herd, gather in crowds.
Typist: Weldon
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Herd, congregate, {[tli]?}, one, assemble, crowd
ANT:Disperse, scatter, separate, segregate
Checker: Nanette
Definition
n. a company of animals as sheep birds &c.: a company generally: a Christian congregation.—v.i. to gather in flocks or in crowds.—n. Flock′-mas′ter an owner or overseer of a flock.
n. a lock of wool.—n. Floccillā′tion a delirious picking of the bed-clothes by a patient.—adjs. Floc′cose woolly; Floc′cūlar; Floc′cūlate.—n. Floc′cūlence.—adj. Floc′cūlent woolly flaky.—ns. Floc′cūlus a small flock or tuft: a small lobe of the inferior surface of the cerebellum; Floc′cus a flock or tuft of wool or wool-like hairs: the downy plumage of unfledged birds:—pl. Flocci (flok′si); Flock′-bed a bed stuffed with flock or refuse wool; Flock′-pā′per wall-paper covered with a rough surface formed of flock.—adj. Flock′y.
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Examples
- As soon as the tribe found out that we had a doctor in our party, they began to flock in from all quarters. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- How voud it be in possibility to flock such fine fellow as dat? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- The Hindu priest is a part of the family life of his flock, between whom and himself the tie has existed for many generations. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They will flock to him, he said, of their own accord, if he pays them. Plato. The Republic.
- The recess beneath the counter in which his flock mattress was thrust, looked like a grave. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- I was in the service of a farmer; and with crook in hand, my dog at my side, I shepherded a numerous flock on the near uplands. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Why the tainted wether of the flock, am I not struck to earth among the first? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- There was no Adrian to superintend and direct, while whole flocks of the poor were struck and killed. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Devoid of parents, devoid of relations, devoid of flocks and herds, devoid of gold and silver and of precious stones. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- They rise in flocks of three hundred and flash along above the tops of the waves a distance of two or three hundred feet, then fall and disappear. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- They live by the crook and the bow; half shepherds, half hunters, their flocks wander wild as their prey. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- When its herds and flocks have consumed the forage of one part of the country, it removes to another, and from that to a third. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- He was the owner of countless flocks. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The sons of Jacob had been pasturing their flocks near there. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Let all young men present mark this: 'The maidens all flocked to his boat so readily. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- There were but eight; yet, somehow, as they flocked in, they gave the impression of a much larger number. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- He kept in mind the practical purposes of mining, and soon people flocked to Freiberg to hear him from all the quarters o f Europe. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Mr. Dubbley did as he was desired; and half a dozen men, each with a short truncheon and a brass crown, flocked into the room. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- We then drove twice up the Park, and Fanny made an effort to answer the beaux who flocked around the carriage, with cheerfulness. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- The farmers and cottagers, on the contrary, struck with the fear of solitude, and madly desirous of medical assistance, flocked into the towns. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- On our way there, we had to pass a noisy drinking-house, where a number of men were flocking about the door. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The sisterhood, the maidens, flocking round the young waterman, and urging him along the stream of duty and of temperance. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
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