||Floc"cu*lus (?), n.; pl. Flocculi (#). [NL., dim. of L. floccus a
||lock or flock of wool.] (Anat.) A small lobe in the under surface of
||the cerebellum, near the middle peduncle; the subpeduncular lobe.
||Floc"cus (?), n.; pl. Flocci (#). [L., a flock of wool.] 1. (Zoˆl.)
||(a) The tuft of hair terminating the tail of mammals. (b) A tuft of
||feathers on the head of young birds.
2. (Bot.) A woolly filament sometimes occuring with the sporules of
certain fungi.
Flock (?), n. [AS. flocc flock, company; akin to Icel. flokkr crowd,
Sw. flock, Dan. flok; prob. orig. used of flows, and akin to E. fly.
See Fly.] 1. 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.
Milton.
The heathen . . . came to Nicanor by flocks.