(n.) 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.
(n.) A Christian church or congregation; considered in their
relation to the pastor, or minister in charge.
(v. i.) To gather in companies or crowds.
(v. t.) To flock to; to crowd.
(n.) A lock of wool or hair.
(n.) Woolen or cotton refuse (sing. / pl.), old rags, etc.,
reduced to a degree of fineness by machinery, and used for stuffing
unpholstered furniture.
(sing. / pl.) 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.
(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.
