flock
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
flock
n 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"; "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" [syn:
{batch}, {deal}, {flock}, {good deal}, {great deal},
{hatful}, {heap}, {lot}, {mass}, {mess}, {mickle}, {mint},
{mountain}, {muckle}, {passel}, {peck}, {pile}, {plenty},
{pot}, {quite a little}, {raft}, {sight}, {slew}, {spate},
{stack}, {tidy sum}, {wad}]
4: an orderly crowd; "a troop of children" [syn: {troop},
{flock}]
5: a group of sheep or goats [syn: {flock}, {fold}]
v 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}, {flock}, {clump}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Flock \Flock\, n. [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.
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I prythee, Tom, beat Cut's saddle, put a few flocks
in the point [pommel]. --Shak.
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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.
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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.
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{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.
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from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Flock \Flock\, 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.
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The heathen . . . came to Nicanor by flocks. --2
Macc. xiv. 14.
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2. A Christian church or congregation; considered in their
relation to the pastor, or minister in charge.
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As half amazed, half frighted all his flock.
--Tennyson.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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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