[f. FLOCK v.1 + -ING1.] Gathering in crowds, congregating.
1604. T. Wright, Passions, I. ix. 35. For what ende hath Nature given this alteration or flocking of humours to the hearte?
1669. Woodhead, St. Teresa, II. xxxiv. 226. Wherever we went (the World being so addicted to novelty) there was such flocking, that had we worn Veils before our faces, it would have bin a great trouble to us, but thus it was tolerable.
1894. Westm. Gaz., 13 June, 5/1. What a flocking of interviewers to Cheyne-row!
