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.
Flock , n. [OE.
flokke; cf. D. vlok, G.
flocke, OHG. floccho, Icel. flōki, 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. "Once a flock bed, but repaired with straw." Pope. -- Flock paper, paper coated with flock fixed with glue or
size.
Flock , v. t. To flock to; to crowd. [Obs.]
Good fellows, trooping, flocked me so.
Taylor
(1609).
Flock , v. i. [imp. & p. p. Flocked (?);
p. pr. & vb. n.
Flocking.]
To gather in companies or crowds.
Friends daily flock.
Dryden. Flocking fowl
(Zoöl.), the
greater scaup duck.
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.
Hear it pronounced