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.

Additional info about word: FLOCK

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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FLOCK)

• Swarm
• Multitude
• crowd
• throng
• cluster
• host
• mass
• press
• posse
• bevy
• flock
• troop
• drove
• herd
• horde
• crew
• gang
• shoal
• army
• regiment
• myriad
• inundation

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of FLOCK)

• Disperse
• scatter
• separate
• segregate
• Relax
• inhibit
• persuade
• entice
• allure
• solicit
• touch
• skim
• graze
• free
• liberate
• ease
• avoid
• relieve

Related words: (words related to FLOCK)

• 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.