flock

Definitions

1. 1noun

   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. 2noun

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

3. 3intransitive verb

   To gather in companies or crowds.

4. 4transitive verb

   To flock to; to crowd.

5. 5noun

   A lock of wool or hair.

6. 6noun

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

7. 7sing plural

   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. 8transitive 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.

9. 9noun

   a group of birds

10. 10noun

    a group of sheep or goats

    Synonyms

    fold
11. 11noun

    a church congregation guided by a pastor

12. 12noun

    an orderly crowd

    "a troop of children"

    Synonyms

    troop
13. 13noun

    (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent

    "a batch of letters"

    "a deal of trouble"

    Synonyms

    batchdealhatfulheaplotmassmessmicklemintmountainmucklepassel

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14. 14verb

    come together as in a cluster or flock

    "The poets constellate in this town every summer"

    Synonyms

    clumpclusterconstellate
15. 15verb

    move as a crowd or in a group

    "Tourists flocked to the shrine where the statue was said to have shed tears"