Flock /(?)/

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.

   The heathen . . . came to Nicanor by flocks.

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.

imp. & p. p. Flocked; p. pr. & vb. n. Flocking

1. To gather in companies or crowds.

   Friends daily flock.

1. To flock to; to crowd. [Obs.]

   Good fellows, trooping, flocked me so.

1. A lock of wool or hair.

   I prythee, Tom, beat Cut's saddle, put a few flocks in the point [pommel].

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.

1. 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.