v. i.
Friends daily flock. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
Flocking fowl (Zool.),
v. t. To flock to; to crowd. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
Good fellows, trooping, flocked me so. Taylor (1609). [ 1913 Webster ]
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. ]
The heathen . . . came to Nicanor by flocks. 2 Macc. xiv. 14. [ 1913 Webster ]
As half amazed, half frighted all his flock. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ OE. flokke; cf. D. vlok, G. flocke, OHG. floccho, Icel. flōki, perh. akin to E. flicker, flacker, or cf. L. floccus, F. floc. ]
I prythee, Tom, beat Cut's saddle, put a few flocks in the point [ pommel ]. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
Flock bed,
Flock paper,
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. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A lamb. [ Obs. ] Brome (1659). [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. In flocks; in crowds. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. [ AS. flocm&unr_;lum. See Meal part. ] In a flock; in a body. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
That flockmel on a day they to him went. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Abounding with flocks; floccose. [ 1913 Webster ]