flock

Speech parts

1. flock - Noun

2. flock - Verb

4. Flock - Proper noun

Meaning

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.

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

To gather in companies or crowds.

To flock to; to crowd.

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

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.

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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Think not that you are thus maintaining the Gospel of Christ when you separate yourselves from the flock of Christ. Cyprian

In order to be a perfect member of a flock of sheep, one has to be, foremost, a sheep. Albert Einstein

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse. Winston Churchill

Birds of a feather flock together. English Proverb

Without the shepherd, sheep are not a flock. Russian Proverb

Eagles fly alone, but sheep flock together. Polish Proverb

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