KJV Dictionary Definition: flock

flock

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

Friends daily flock.

flocking

FLOCK'ING, ppr. Collecting or running together in a crowd.