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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 See also:

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

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