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FLOCK

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 524 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FLOCK  . 1 . (A word found in Old

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English and Old
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Norwegian, from which come the Danish and
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Swedish words, and not in other Teutonic
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languages), originally a
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company of
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people, now mainly, except in figurative usages, of certain animals when gathered together for feeding or moving from place to place . For birds it is chiefly used of geese; and for other animals' most generally of sheep and goats . It is from the particular application of the word to sheep that flock " is used of the Christian Church in its relation to the " Good Shepherd," and also of a congregation of worshippers in its relation to its spiritual head . 2 . (Probably from the
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Lat . /loccus, but many Teutonic languages have the same word in various forms), a tuft of wool, cotton or similar substance . The name " flock " is given to a material formed of wool or cotton refuse, or of shreds of old woollen or cotton rags, torn by a machine known as a " devil." This material is used for stuffing mattresses or pillows, and also in upholstery . The name is also applied to a
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special kind of wall-paper, which has an appearance almost like
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cloth,, or, in the more expensive kinds, of
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velvet . It is made by dusting on a specially prepared adhesive
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surface finely powdered fibres of cotton or
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silk . The word " flocculent "is used of many substances which have a fleecy or " flock "-like appearance, such as a precipitate of ferric
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hydrate .

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