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Home Dictionary Name: flocklyRag Flock
Rag Flock. See the (English) Rag Flock Act, 1911 (1 & 2 Geo. 5, c. 52), an Act to prohibit the sale and use for the purpose of the manufacture of certain Articles of unclean flock manufactured from rags. As to the meaning of 'rags,' see Cooper v. Swift, (1914) 1 KB 253; Balmforth v. Chadburn, (1927) 1 KB 663 (ragflock includes new material); and for further decisions on the Act, see Guildford Corporation v. Brown, (1915) 1 KB 256; Cooper v. Evan Cook's Depositories, ibid. 344....
Flock
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...
Flockly
In flocks in crowds...
Gregarious
Habitually living or moving in flocks or herds tending to flock or herd together not habitually solitary or living alone...
Bellwether
A wether or sheep which leads the flock with a bell on his neck...
Booly
A company of Irish herdsmen or a single herdsman wandering from place to place with flocks and herds and living on their milk like the Tartars also a place in the mountain pastures inclosed for the shelter of cattle or their keepers...
cedar waxwing
a species of chatterer Bombycilla cedrorum formerly Ampelis cedrorum widely distributed over temperate North America so named from its frequenting cedar trees called also cedar bird cherry bird Canada robin and American waxwing It is a brownish bird about 7 inches long between the size of a robin and a sparrow has a crest on the head a black face mask and a yellow tipped tail The name comes from the black color of the tips of the wings like that of a black sealing wax They sometimes are seen in flocks...
Collie
The Scotch shepherd dog There are two breeds the rough haired and smooth haired It is remarkable for its intelligence displayed especially in caring for flocks...
Covey
A brood or hatch of birds an old bird with her brood of young hence a small flock or number of birds together said of game as a covey of partridges...
Crosier
The pastoral staff of a bishop also of an archbishop being the symbol of his office as a shepherd of the flock of God...
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