To gather in a flock, company, or crowd go in a flock or crowd: as, birds of a feather flock together the people flocked together in the market-place.ДЇinely powdered wool or cloth, used, when colored, for making flock-paper and also formerly as shoddy. Brood applies to the mother and her young till the latter are old enough for game. Gang is applied to wild turkeys, wisp to snipe, bevy to quail, sedge to herons. Pack is applied to the pinnated grouse in the late season when they go in вЂњpacksвЂќ or large flocks.

Covey is applied to several kinds of birds, especially partridges and pinnated grouse. Herbert applies gaggle to geese Colquhoun applies it to geese swimming it is not used in the United States. Flock is the popular term for birds of many sorts it is applied by sportsmen especially to wild ducks, geese, and shore-birds. Synonyms Flock, Gaggle, Covey, Pack, Gang, Wisp, Bevy, Sedge, Brood. Hence In Biblical and ecclesiastical use, a company of persons united in one church, under a leader called, by the same figure, the shepherd or pastor a congregation, with regard to its minister. Among sportsmen it is applied especially to companies of wild ducks, geese, and shore-birds. 3), which is a figurative use of sense 2.ДЄ company of animals, in modern use especially of sheep, goats, or birds. The word is now seldom used with reference to persons, except as in the ecclesiastical or religious sense (def. or pl.), old rags, etc., reduced to a degree of fineness by machinery, and used for stuffing unpholstered furniture.ДЄ company or band (of persons). 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. 'I prythee, Tom, beat Cut's saddle, put a few flocks in the point.

'ДЄ 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. 'As half amazed, half frighted all his flock. A Christian church or congregation considered in their relation to the pastor, or minister in charge.

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