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▪ I. flocking, vbl. n.|ˈflɒkɪŋ|
[f. flock v.1 + -ing1.]
Gathering in crowds, congregating.
1604T. Wright Passions i. ix. 35 For what ende hath Nature given this alteration or flocking of humours to the hearte? 1669Woodhead St. Teresa ii. xxxiv. 226 Wher⁓ever we went, there was such flocking. 1894Westm. Gaz. 13 June 5/1 What a flocking of interviewers to Cheyne-row!
▪ II. flocking, ppl. a.|ˈflɒkɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
Assembling in flocks or crowds.
1581Mulcaster Positions xxxvii. (1887) 145 To cut of this flocking multitude. 1878Masque Poets 217 The flocking gulls that came and fled.
Hence ˈflockingly adv., in a flock.
14..MS. Egerton 829 f. 94 (Halliw.) Gregatim, flokyng⁓lyche. |