- a number of animals of one kind, especially sheep, goats, or birds, that keep or feed together or are herded together.
- a large number of people; crowd.
- a large group of things: a flock of letters to answer.
- (in New Testament and ecclesiastical use)
- the Christian church in relation to Christ.
- a single congregation in relation to its pastor.
- a band or company of persons.
- to gather or go in a flock or crowd: They flocked around the football hero.
- a lock or tuft of wool, hair, cotton, etc.
- wool refuse, shearings of cloth, old cloth torn to pieces, or the like, for upholstering furniture, stuffing mattresses, etc.
- finely powdered wool, cloth, etc., used for producing a velvetlike pattern on wallpaper or cloth or for coating metal.
- floc (def. 1).
- to stuff with flock, as a mattress.
- to decorate or coat with flock, as wallpaper, cloth, or metal.
- a group of animals of one kind, esp sheep or birds
- a large number of people; crowd
- a body of Christians regarded as the pastoral charge of a priest, a bishop, the pope, etc
- a band of people; group
- to gather together or move in a flock
- to go in large numbers
- a tuft, as of wool, hair, cotton, etc
- waste from fabrics such as cotton, wool, or other cloth used for stuffing mattresses, upholstered chairs, etc
- (as modifier)
- very small tufts of wool applied to fabrics, wallpaper, etc, to give a raised pattern
- another word for floccule
- to fill, cover, or ornament with flock
