Definition of flock

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Flock (n.) 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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Phalarope :: Phalarope (n.) Any species of Phalaropus and allied genera of small wading birds (Grallae), having lobate toes. They are often seen far from land, swimming in large flocks. Called also sea goose..
Team :: Team (n.) A flock of wild ducks.
Flocking :: Flocking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Floc.
Nomadize :: Nomadize (v. i.) To lead the life of a nomad; to wander with flocks and herds for the sake of finding pasturage.
Covey :: Covey (n.) A brood or hatch of birds; an old bird with her brood of young; hence, a small flock or number of birds together; -- said of game; as, a covey of partridges..
Sedge :: Sedge (n.) A flock of herons.
Whisp :: Whisp (n.) A flock of snipe.
Plump :: Plump (n.) A knot; a cluster; a group; a crowd; a flock; as, a plump of trees, fowls, or spears..
Fold :: Fold (n.) A flock of sheep; figuratively, the Church or a church; as, Christ's fold..
Flush :: Flush (n.) A flock of birds suddenly started up or flushed.
Snowbird :: Snowbird (n.) Any finch of the genus Junco which appears in flocks in winter time, especially J. hyemalis in the Eastern United States; -- called also blue snowbird. See Junco..
Lock :: Lock (n.) A tuft of hair; a flock or small quantity of wool, hay, or other like substance; a tress or ringlet of hair..
Bergamot :: Bergamot (n.) A coarse tapestry, manufactured from flock of cotton or hemp, mixed with ox's or goat's hair; -- said to have been invented at Bergamo, Italy. Encyc. Brit..
Gaggle :: Gaggle (v. i.) A flock of wild geese.
Floccillation :: Floccillation (n.) A delirious picking of bedclothes by a sick person, as if to pick off flocks of wool; carphology; -- an alarming symptom in acute diseases..
Warp :: Warp (v. i.) To fly with a bending or waving motion; to turn and wave, like a flock of birds or insects..
Flockmel :: Flockmel (adv.) In a flock; in a body.
Drift :: Drift (n.) A drove or flock, as of cattle, sheep, birds..
Gregarious :: Gregarious (a.) Habitually living or moving in flocks or herds; tending to flock or herd together; not habitually solitary or living alone.
Flock :: 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..
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