flock
n 1: a church congregation guided by a pastor
2: a group of birds
3: (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent:
"a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of
money"; "it must have cost plenty" [syn: {batch}, {deal},
{good deal}, {great deal}, {hatful}, {heap}, {lot}, {mass},
{mess}, {mickle}, {mint}, {muckle}, {peck}, {pile}, {plenty},
{pot}, {quite a little}, {raft}, {sight}, {slew}, {spate},
{stack}, {tidy sum}, {wad}, {whole lot}, {whole slew}]
4: an orderly crowd; "a troop of children" [syn: {troop}]
5: a group of sheep or goats
v 1: move as a crowd or in a group; "Tourists flocked to the
schrine where the statue was said to have shed tears"
2: come together as in a cluster or flock; "The poets
constellate in this town every summer" [syn: {cluster}, {constellate},
{clump}]