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FLOCK, n. L. floccus. It is the same radically as flake, and applied to wool or hair, we write it lock. See Flake.

1. A company or collection applied to sheep and other small animals. A flock of sheep answers to a herd of larger cattle. But the word may sometimes perhaps be applied to larger beasts, and in the plural, flocks may include all kinds of domesticated animals.
2. A company or collection of fowls of any kind, and when applied to birds on the wing, a flight as a flock of wild-geese a flock of ducks a flock of blackbirds. in the United States, flocks of wild-pigeons sometimes darken the air.
3. A body or crowd of people. little used. Gr. a troop.
4. A lock of wool or hair. Hence, a flockbed.

FLOCK, To gather in companies or crowds applied to men or other animals. People flock together. They flock to the play-house.

Friends daily flock.

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Entry for 'Flock'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​kjd/​f/flock.html.
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