Definition of Flocky

1. a. Abounding with flocks; floccose.

Definition of Flocky

1. Adjective. Abounding with flocks; floccose. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Flocky

1. woolly [adj FLOCKIER, FLOCKIEST] - See also: woolly

Lexicographical Neighbors of Flocky

floccus
flock
flocked
flockier
flockiest
flocking
flockings
flockless
flockling
flocklings
flockly
flockmate
flockmates
flockmel
flocks
flocky (current term)
flocs
floe
floes
flog
flog a dead horse
floged
floggable
flogged
flogger
floggers
flogging
floggings

Literary usage of Flocky

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The English Cyclopaedia by Charles Knight (1867)
"The other species, flocky Lemur of Shaw, ia stated to be 1 foot 9 ... flocky Indri. Dr. Shaw is of opinion that Le Petit Makia Gris (Buffon, ' Supp., ..."

2. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial ScienceChemistry (1899)
"... boiling (while the solution was kept distinctly ammoniacal) until the flocky precipitate was entirely converted to a fine powdery, semi-crystalline, ..."

3. An Attempt to Establish the First Principles of Chemistry by Experiment by Thomas Thomson (1825)
"Nitrate of lead—A white flocky precipitate. 27. Muriate of tin—A copious white flocky ... Nitrate of silver—A copious white flocky precipitate. 31. ..."

4. Transactions of the American Ceramic Society Containing the Papers and by American Ceramic Society (1902)
"The flocky segregations, apparently due to tin, predominate. Glaze Bj.. B2O3=.50—In this glaze the pink is almost entirely destroyed and the tin-enamel ..."

5. Records of General Science by Robert Dundas Thomson, T Thomson (1836)
"With caustic ammonia—gave a white flocky precipitate, soluble in excess of the ... With carbonate of soda—white flocky precipitate, insoluble in excess of ..."

6. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1855)
"The commonest forms are punctated, filamentous, membranous, flocky, or irregular. The first are nob easily overlooked. The causes of intra-ocular hemorrhage ..."

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