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資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Flock \Flock\, n. [AS. flocc flock, company; akin to Icel.
   flokkr crowd, Sw. flock, Dan. flok; prob. orig. used of
   flows, and akin to E. fly. See {Fly}.]
   1. 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. --Milton.

            The heathen . . . came to Nicanor by flocks. --2
                                                  Macc. xiv. 14.

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

            As half amazed, half frighted all his flock.
                                                  --Tennyson.

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.

Flock \Flock\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Flocked}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Flocking}.]
   To gather in companies or crowds.

         Friends daily flock.                     --Dryden.

   {Flocking fowl} (Zo["o]l.), the greater scaup duck.

Flock \Flock\, v. t.
   To flock to; to crowd. [Obs.]

         Good fellows, trooping, flocked me so.   --Taylor
                                                  (1609).

Flock \Flock\, n. [OE. flokke; cf. D. vlok, G. flocke, OHG.
   floccho, Icel. fl[=o]ki, perh. akin to E. flicker, flacker,
   or cf. L. floccus, F. floc.]
   1. A lock of wool or hair.

            I prythee, Tom, beat Cut's saddle, put a few flocks
            in the point [pommel].                --Shak.

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

   3. 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.

   {Flock bed}, a bed filled with flocks or locks of coarse
      wool, or pieces of cloth cut up fine. ``Once a flock bed,
      but repaired with straw.'' --Pope.

   {Flock paper}, paper coated with flock fixed with glue or
      size.

資料來源 : WordNet®

flock
     n 1: a church congregation guided by a pastor
     2: a group of birds
     3: (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent;
        "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of
        money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "it must
        have cost plenty" [syn: {batch}, {deal}, {good deal}, {great
        deal}, {hatful}, {heap}, {lot}, {mass}, {mess}, {mickle},
        {mint}, {muckle}, {peck}, {pile}, {plenty}, {pot}, {quite
        a little}, {raft}, {sight}, {slew}, {spate}, {stack}, {tidy
        sum}, {wad}, {whole lot}, {whole slew}]
     4: an orderly crowd; "a troop of children" [syn: {troop}]
     5: a group of sheep or goats
     v 1: move as a crowd or in a group; "Tourists flocked to the
          shrine where the statue was said to have shed tears"
     2: come together as in a cluster or flock; "The poets
        constellate in this town every summer" [syn: {cluster}, {constellate},
         {clump}]