Thesaurus: flock

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1. 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.
2. n. A Christian church or congregation; considered in their relation to the pastor, or minister in charge.
3. v. i. To gather in companies or crowds.
4. v. t. To flock to; to crowd.
5. n. A lock of wool or hair.
6. n. Woolen or cotton refuse (sing. / pl.), old rags, etc., reduced to a degree of fineness by machinery, and used for stuffing unpholstered furniture.
7. sing. / pl. 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.
8. 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.
9. n. a church congregation guided by a pastor
10. n. a group of birds
11. n. (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent
12. n. an orderly crowd