Flock

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1. Noun

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.

2. Noun

A Christian church or congregation; considered in their relation to the pastor, or minister in charge.

3. Verb

To gather in companies or crowds.

4. Verb

To flock to; to crowd.

5. Noun

A lock of wool or hair.

6. Noun

Woolen or cotton refuse (sing. / pl.), old rags, etc., reduced to a degree of fineness by machinery, and used for stuffing unpholstered furniture.

7. Unclassified

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.

8. Verb

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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