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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.
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Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
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Entry for 'Flock'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/f/flock.html.
Entry for 'Flock'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/f/flock.html.
