FLOCCUS
Floc"cus, n.; pl. Flocci. Etym: [L., a flock of wool.]
1. (Zoöl.) (a) The tuft of hair terminating the tail of mammals. (b) A tuft of feathers on the head of young birds.
2. (Bot.)
Defn: A woolly filament sometimes occuring with the sporules of certain fungi.
FLOCK
Flock, n. Etym: [AS. flocc flock, company; akin to Icel. flokkr
crowd, Sw. flock, Dan. flok; prob. orig. used of flows, and akin to
E. fly. See Fly.]
1. A company or collection of living creatures; — especially applied to sheep and birds, rarely to persons or (except in the plural) to cattle and other large animals; as, a flock of ravenous fowl. Milton. The heathen . . . came to Nicanor by flocks. 2 Macc. xiv. 14.
2. A Christian church or congregation; considered in their relation to the pastor, or minister in charge. As half amazed, half frighted all his flock. Tennyson.
FLOCK
Flock, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Flocked; p. pr. & vb. n. Flocking.]
Defn: To gather in companies or crowds.
Friends daily flock. Dryden.
Flocking fowl (Zoöl.), the greater scaup duck.
FLOCK
Flock, v. t.