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