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Webster 1913 Edition


Flocculent

Floc′cu-lent

,
Adj.
[See
Flock
of wool.]
1.
Clothed with small flocks or flakes; woolly.
Gray.
2.
(Zool.)
Applied to the down of newly hatched or unfledged birds.

Webster 1828 Edition


Flocculent

FLOC'CULENT

,
Adj.
Coalescing and adhering in locks or flakes.
I say the liquor is broken to flocculence, when the particles of herbaceous matter, seized by those of the lime, and coalescing, appear large and flocculent.