flock : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: flock	by the DICT Development Group
6 results for flock
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
flock n a church congregation guided by a pastor a group of birds (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" Synonym(s): 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 an orderly crowd; "a troop of children" Synonym(s): troop, flock a group of sheep or goats Synonym(s): flock, fold v move as a crowd or in a group; "Tourists flocked to the shrine where the statue was said to have shed tears" come together as in a cluster or flock; "The poets constellate in this town every summer" Synonym(s): cluster, constellate, flock, clump
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Flock \Flock\, v. t. To flock to; to crowd. [Obs.] Good fellows, trooping, flocked me so. --Taylor (1609).
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Flock \Flock\, n. [OE. flokke; cf. D. vlok, G. flocke, OHG. floccho, Icel. fl[omac]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. [bd]Once a flock bed, but repaired with straw.[b8] --Pope. {Flock paper}, paper coated with flock fixed with glue or size.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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. 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 Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Flock \Flock\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Flocked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Flocking}.] To gather in companies or crowds. Friends daily flock. --Dryden. {Flocking fowl} (Zo[94]l.), the greater scaup duck.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Flock \Flock\, 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.