flock opener

A machine with pickers or stiff brushes for tearing apart the bunches of flock, so as to make a light, loose fiber which shall feed regularly to the cloth or paper to whose varnished surface it is to be attached. flock-paper, s. Wall-paper on which pulverized wool is attached by size. *flock-powder, s. A kind of powder formerly put on cloth. flock, *flocke, v. i. & t. [FLOCK (1), 8.] A. In trans .: To gather together in crowds; to collect to one place. "Amongst them that flocked about him."-Brende: Quintus Curtius, fo. 250. *B. Trans.: To crowd around. "We do him loute and flocke." Udall: Roister Doister, iii. 8. *flocked, *flok-kit, a. [English flock (2); -ed .] Having the nap raised, or thickened. *flock-er, s . [Eng. flock , v.; -er.] One of a number who flock or crowd to a place. flock-ing, a. [Eng. flock (2), s.; -ing.] Em ployed or intended for use with flock. flocking-machine, s. A machine for distributing flock on a prepared surface of cloth or paper. *flock-le , a. [Eng. flock ; -le .] Without a flock. suff. -ar.] Anat .: Of or belonging to the flocculus (q. v.). Floccular proce : Anat .: The same as FLOCCULUS (q.v.).