flockingn.
/ˈflɒkɪŋ/ Gathering in crowds, congregating.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement towards a thing, person, or position > [noun] > towards each other or convergence
concourse1398
recountera1470
congress1578
concurrency1597
flocking1604
confluence1606
contraction1610
congression1611
closing1625
conflux1655
coition1656
concurrencea1661
convolation1676
concursion1692
convergence1713
convergency1794
the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > [noun] > assembling of people or animals > in large numbers
thronging1548
swarming1551
flocking1604
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement towards a thing, person, or position > [noun] > towards each other or convergence > of numbers of people
concoursec1384
repairc1390
confluence?a1475
resort1485
recourse1516
concursion1533
affluence1579
afflux1603
conflux1614
concurrence1632
flocking1669
run1792
1604 T. Wright Passions of Minde (new ed.) i. ix. 35 For what ende hath Nature given this alteration or flocking of humours to the hearte?
1669 A. Woodhead tr. Life St. Teresa (1671) ii. xxxiv. 226 Wher~ever we went, there was such flocking.
1894 Westm. Gaz. 13 June 5/1 What a flocking of interviewers to Cheyne-row!
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
flockingadj.
/ˈflɒkɪŋ/ Assembling in flocks or crowds.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > [adjective] > assembling in crowds
thronging1566
flocking1581
swarming1590
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement towards a thing, person, or position > [adjective] > towards each other or converging > of numbers of people
flocking1581
concurrent1879
1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xxxvii. 144 To cut of this flocking multitude.
1878 J. T. Trowbridge Guy Vernon in G. P. Lathrop Masque of Poets 217 The flocking gulls that came and fled.
Derivatives
ˈflockingly adv. in a flock.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > [adverb] > in crowds or companies
flock-mealc893
flockingly14..
flockly1552
throngingly1598
troopmeal1600
throngly1653
troopwise1820
a-swarm1830
flock-wise1837
shoal-wise1883
mob-handed1970
14.. MS. Egerton 829 f. 94 (Halliw.) Gregatim, flokyng~lyche.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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ˈflocking
ˈflocking n. (attributive) .
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1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. I. 886/1 Flocking-machine, one for distributing flock on a prepared surface of cloth or paper.
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