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Flock

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.

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Assemble 76% connected

To collect into one place or body; to bring or call together; to convene; to congregate.

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Congregation 76% connected

The act of congregating, or bringing together, or of collecting into one aggregate or mass.

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Crowd 76% connected

To push, to press, to shove.

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Faithful 76% connected

Full of faith, or having faith; disposed to believe, especially in the declarations and promises of God.

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Fold 76% connected

To lap or lay in plaits or folds; to lay one part over another part of; to double; as, to fold cloth; to fold a letter.

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Foregather 76% connected

Same as Forgather.

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Forgather 76% connected

To convene; to gossip; to meet accidentally.

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Gather 76% connected

To bring together; to collect, as a number of separate things, into one place, or into one aggregate body; to assemble; to muster; to congregate.

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Go 76% connected

Gone.

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Meet 76% connected

To join, or come in contact with; esp., to come in contact with by approach from an opposite direction; to come upon or against, front to front, as d…

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Move 76% connected

To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as…

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Travel 76% connected

To labor; to travail.

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Bevy 76% connected

A company; an assembly or collection of persons, especially of ladies.

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Covert 76% connected

Covered over; private; hid; secret; disguised.

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Covey 76% connected

A brood or hatch of birds; an old bird with her brood of young; hence, a small flock or number of birds together; -- said of game; as, a covey of par…

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Deluge 76% connected

A washing away; an overflowing of the land by water; an inundation; a flood; specifically, The Deluge, the great flood in the days of Noah (Gen. vii.…

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Exaltation 76% connected

The act of exalting or raising high; also, the state of being exalted; elevation.

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Flight 76% connected

The act or flying; a passing through the air by the help of wings; volitation; mode or style of flying.

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Flood 76% connected

A great flow of water; a body of moving water; the flowing stream, as of a river; especially, a body of water, rising, swelling, and overflowing land…

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Gaggle 76% connected

To make a noise like a goose; to cackle.

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Haymow 76% connected

A mow or mass of hay laid up in a barn for preservation.

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Inundation 76% connected

The act of inundating, or the state of being inundated; an overflow; a flood; a rising and spreading of water over grounds.

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Torrent 76% connected

A violent stream, as of water, lava, or the like; a stream suddenly raised and running rapidly, as down a precipice.

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Wisp 76% connected

A small bundle, as of straw or other like substance.

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Manner of action 2

Bunch 76% connected

A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; a hump.

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Huddle 76% connected

To press together promiscuously, from confusion, apprehension, or the like; to crowd together confusedly; to press or hurry in disorder; to crowd.

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Constellation 74% connected

A cluster or group of fixed stars, or dvision of the heavens, designated in most cases by the name of some animal, or of some mythologial personage,…

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Constellation 74% connected

A cluster or group of fixed stars, or dvision of the heavens, designated in most cases by the name of some animal, or of some mythologial personage,…

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Troop 74% connected

A collection of people; a company; a number; a multitude.

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Troop 74% connected

A collection of people; a company; a number; a multitude.

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Member part 2

Bird 70% connected

Orig., a chicken; the young of a fowl; a young eaglet; a nestling; and hence, a feathered flying animal (see 2).

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Sheep 70% connected

Any one of several species of ruminants of the genus Ovis, native of the higher mountains of both hemispheres, but most numerous in Asia.

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Synonym 25

Batch 92% connected

The quantity of bread baked at one time.

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Clump 92% connected

An unshaped piece or mass of wood or other substance.

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Cluster 92% connected

A number of things of the same kind growing together; a bunch.

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Constellate 92% connected

To join luster; to shine with united radiance, or one general light.

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Deal 92% connected

A part or portion; a share; hence, an indefinite quantity, degree, or extent, degree, or extent; as, a deal of time and trouble; a deal of cold.

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Fold 92% connected

To lap or lay in plaits or folds; to lay one part over another part of; to double; as, to fold cloth; to fold a letter.

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Heap 92% connected

A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of persons.

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Lot 92% connected

That which happens without human design or forethought; chance; accident; hazard; fortune; fate.

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Mass 92% connected

The sacrifice in the sacrament of the Eucharist, or the consecration and oblation of the host.

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Mess 92% connected

Mass; church service.

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Mickle 92% connected

Much; great.

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Mint 92% connected

The name of several aromatic labiate plants, mostly of the genus Mentha, yielding odoriferous essential oils by distillation. See Mentha.

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Mountain 92% connected

A large mass of earth and rock, rising above the common level of the earth or adjacent land; earth and rock forming an isolated peak or a ridge; an e…

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Muckle 92% connected

Much.

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Peck 92% connected

The fourth part of a bushel; a dry measure of eight quarts; as, a peck of wheat.

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Pile 92% connected

A hair; hence, the fiber of wool, cotton, and the like; also, the nap when thick or heavy, as of carpeting and velvet.

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Plenty 92% connected

Full or adequate supply; enough and to spare; sufficiency; specifically, abundant productiveness of the earth; ample supply for human wants; abundanc…

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Pot 92% connected

A metallic or earthen vessel, appropriated to any of a great variety of uses, as for boiling meat or vegetables, for holding liquids, for plants, etc…

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Raft 92% connected

imp. & p. p. of Reave.

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Sight 92% connected

The act of seeing; perception of objects by the eye; view; as, to gain sight of land.

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Slew 92% connected

of Slay

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Spate 92% connected

A river flood; an overflow or inundation.

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Stack 92% connected

A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, usually of a nearly conical form, but sometimes rectangular or oblong, contracted at the top to a poi…

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Troop 92% connected

A collection of people; a company; a number; a multitude.

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Wad 92% connected

Woad.

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