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Word Meanings - FLOCK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

crowd, Sw. flock, Dan. flok; prob. orig. used of flows, and akin to 1. A company or collection of living creatures; -- especially applied to sheep and birds, rarely to persons or to cattle and other large animals; as, a flock of ravenous fowl.

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crowd, Sw. flock, Dan. flok; prob. orig. used of flows, and akin to 1. A company or collection of living creatures; -- especially applied to sheep and birds, rarely to persons or 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.

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  • TROOPSHIP
    A vessel built or fitted for the conveyance of troops; a transport.
  • INHIBITORY
    Of or pertaining to, or producing, inhibition; consisting in inhibition; tending or serving to inhibit; as, the inhibitory action of the pneumogastric on the respiratory center. I would not have you consider these criticisms as inhibitory. Lamb.
  • POSSESSIVE
    Of or pertaining to possession; having or indicating possession. Possessive case , the genitive case; the case of nouns and pronouns which expresses ownership, origin, or some possessive relation of one thing to another; as, Homer's admirers; the
  • PERSUADER
    One who, or that which, persuades or influences. "Powerful persuaders." Milton.
  • RELAXANT
    A medicine that relaxes; a laxative.
  • PERSUADED
    Prevailed upon; influenced by argument or entreaty; convinced. -- Per*suad"ed*ly, adv. -- Per*suad"ed*ness, n.
  • SHOAL
    A great multitude assembled; a crowd; a throng; -- said especially of fish; as, a shoal of bass. "Great shoals of people." Bacon. Beneath, a shoal of silver fishes glides. Waller. (more info) to OS. skola; probably originally, a division, and akin
  • POSSE
    See VOCABULARY
  • TROOPBIRD
    Any troupial.
  • CROWD
    1. To push, to press, to shove. Chaucer. 2. To press or drive together; to mass together. "Crowd us and crush us." Shak. 3. To fill by pressing or thronging together; hence, to encumber by excess of numbers or quantity. The balconies and verandas
  • REGIMENTALS
    The uniform worn by the officers and soldiers of a regiment; military dress; -- formerly used in the singular in the same sense. Colman.
  • POSSESSIONER
    1. A possessor; a property holder. "Possessioners of riches." E. Hall. Having been of old freemen and possessioners. Sir P. Sidney. 2. An invidious name for a member of any religious community endowed with property in lands, buildings, etc.,
  • RELAXATIVE
    Having the quality of relaxing; laxative. -- n.
  • SOLICITUDE
    The state of being solicitous; uneasiness of mind occasioned by fear of evil or desire good; anxiety. The many cares and great labors of worldly men, their solicitude and outward shows. Sir W. Raleigh. The mother looked at her with fond solicitude.
  • HORDEIN
    A peculiar starchy matter contained in barley. It is complex mixture.
  • PRESSIROSTRAL
    Of or pertaining to the pressirosters.
  • INHIBITION
    A stopping or checking of an already present action; a restraining of the function of an organ, or an agent, as a digestive fluid or ferment, etc.; as, the inhibition of the respiratory center by the pneumogastric nerve; the inhibition of reflexes,
  • CLUSTERY
    Growing in, or full of, clusters; like clusters. Johnson.
  • PRESSIVE
    Pressing; urgent; also, oppressive; as, pressive taxation. Bp. Hall.
  • PRESSGANG
    See PRESS
  • BESCATTER
    1. To scatter over. 2. To cover sparsely by scattering ; to strew. "With flowers bescattered." Spenser.
  • ELFLOCK
    Hair matted, or twisted into a knot, as if by elves.
  • INSEPARATE
    Not separate; together; united. Shak.
  • HOTPRESSED
    Pressed while heat is applied. See Hotpress, v. t.
  • APPRENTICESHIP
    1. The service or condition of an apprentice; the state in which a person is gaining instruction in a trade or art, under legal agreement. 2. The time an apprentice is serving (sometimes seven years, as from the age of fourteen to twenty-one).
  • HOTPRESS
    To apply to, in conjunction with mechanical pressure, for the purpose of giving a smooth and glosay surface, or to express oil, etc.; as, to hotpress paper, linen, etc.
  • SUPPRESSOR
    One who suppresses.
  • INTHRONG
    To throng or collect together. Fairfax.
  • INCOMPRESSIBLE
    Not compressible; incapable of being reduced by force or pressure into a smaller compass or volume; resisting compression; as, many liquids and solids appear to be almost incompressible. -- In`com*press"i*ble*ness, n.
  • INSUPPRESSIBLE
    That can not be suppressed or concealed; irrepressible. Young. -- In`sup*press"i*bly, adv.

 

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