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Thompson Chain Reference
• Starving the Flock
• Scattering the Flock
• Flock, God's
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American Tract Society
• Flocks
Baker's Evangelical Dictionary
• Flock
Holman Bible Dictionary
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• Flock, Fold
• Flock
King James Dictionary
• Flock
Morrish Bible Dictionary
• Flock, Tower of the
• Flock
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Flock
Hawker's Poor Man's Dictionary
• Flock
Vines' Expository Dictionary
• Flock
• Flock
Wilson's Bible Types
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Webster Dictionary
• Flocking
• Flocked
• Flock
Watson's Theological Dictionary
• Flock
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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
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• Tower of Edar (the Flock)
Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia
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McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Flock
• Flock (2)
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FLOCK, n. L. floccus. It is the same radically as flake, and applied to wool or hair, we write it lock. See Flake.

1. A company or collection applied to sheep and other small animals. A flock of sheep answers to a herd of larger cattle. But the word may sometimes perhaps be applied to larger beasts, and in the plural, flocks may include all kinds of domesticated animals.

2. A company or collection of fowls of any kind, and when applied to birds on the wing, a flight as a flock of wild-geese a flock of ducks a flock of blackbirds. in the United States, flocks of wild-pigeons sometimes darken the air.

3. A body or crowd of people. little used. Gr. a troop.

4. A lock of wool or hair. Hence, a flockbed.

FLOCK, To gather in companies or crowds applied to men or other animals. People flock together. They flock to the play-house.

Friends daily flock.