Definitions for the word "flock" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. 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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
A Christian church or congregation; considered in their relation to the pastor, or minister in charge.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. v. i.
To gather in companies or crowds.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. v. t.
To flock to; to crowd.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
A lock of wool or hair.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. n.
Woolen or cotton refuse (sing. / pl.), old rags, etc., reduced to a degree of fineness by machinery, and used for stuffing unpholstered furniture.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. 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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. 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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. n.
1 animals of one kind as a group or unit. 2 large crowd of people. 3 people in the care of a priest or teacher etc. v. (usu. Foll. By to, in, out, together) congregate; mass; troop. [old english]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
10. n.
1 lock or tuft of wool, cotton, etc. 2 (also in pl.; often attrib.) Wool-refuse etc. Used for quilting and stuffing. [latin floccus]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
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