transferred. A number of persons, birds, or other objects moving or employed in company (now rare, exc. dialect); revived in the sense of: a…

The result of congregating; a gathering, assemblage, or company. of animals or things.

A number of things or persons introduced, put, or treated together; a set.

A small party, collection, or assembly (of people, animals, or things); a detachment; a group, a lot, a set; a drove, a flock, a herd. Now English reg…

A number of things connected in temporal or spatial succession or by natural production or formation.

With less or no implication of deliberate arrangement or composition. A number of things (in earlier use esp. natural objects) located or occurring…

A collection of objects ‘lodged’ or situated close to each other. Obsolete. rare.

gen. A group.

A group, esp. of animals.

A number, group, series, lot, tale; esp. a certain number or group (of things or persons) taken as the unit of computation. Also, ‘a company or…