\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.

\Flock\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Flocked}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Flocking}.]
To gather in companies or crowds.
      Friends daily flock.                     --Dryden.
{Flocking fowl} (Zo["o]l.), the greater scaup duck.

\Flock\, v. t.
To flock to; to crowd. [Obs.]
      Good fellows, trooping, flocked me so.   --Taylor
                                               (1609).

\Flock\, n. [OE. flokke; cf. D. vlok, G. flocke, OHG.
floccho, Icel. fl[=o]ki, 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 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.