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The tuft of hair terminating the tail of mammals.

rds, 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. 2 Macc. xiv. 14.

A lamb. [Obs.] Brome (1659).

In flocks; in crowds. [Obs.]

In a flock; in a body. [Obs.] That flockmel on a day they to him went. Chaucer.

Abounding with flocks; floccose.

A low, flat mass of floating ice. Floe rat (Zoöl.), a seal (Phoca foetida).

To beat or strike with a rod or whip; to whip; to lash; to chastise with repeated blows.

One who flogs.

from Flog, v. t. Flogging chisel (Mach.), a large cold chisel, used in chipping castings. -- Flogging hammer, a small sledge hammer used for striking a flogging chisel.

See Flo. [Obs.] Chaucer.

imp. & p. p. of Fling.

A great flow of water; a body of moving water; the flowing stream, as of a river; especially, a body of water, rising, swelling, and overflowing land not usually thus covered; a deluge; a freshet; an inundation. A covenant never to destroy The earth again by flood. Milton.

Inundation. [R.] Carlyle.

One who floods anything.

The filling or covering with water or other fluid; overflow; inundation; the filling anything to excess.

A fluke of an anchor.

See Flucan.

Fluky.

girders, etc., with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into stories. Floor in sense 1 is, then, the upper surface of floor in sense 2.