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Crowd

Crowd (crowd)
v. t.(kroud)
Crowd
[imp. *** p. p. Crowded] p. pr. *** vb. n. Crowding.] [OE. crouden, cruden, AS. cr&?]dan; cf. D. kruijen to push in a wheelbarrow.]
  1. To push, to press, to shove.
    Chaucer.
  2. To press or drive together; to mass together.
    "Crowd us and crush us." Shak.
  3. To fill by pressing or thronging together; hence, to encumber by excess of numbers or quantity.

    The balconies and verandas were crowded with spectators, anxious to behold their future sovereign.
    Prescott.

  4. To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.
    [Colloq.]

    To crowd out, to press out; specifically, to prevent the publication of; as, the press of other matter crowded out the article. -- To crowd sail (Naut.), to carry an extraordinary amount of sail, with a view to accelerate the speed of a vessel; to carry a press of sail.

Crowd

Crowd (crowd)
v. i.
Crowd
  1. To press together or collect in numbers; to swarm; to throng.

    The whole company crowded about the fire.
    Addison.

    Images came crowding on his mind faster than he could put them into words.
    Macaulay.

  2. To urge or press forward; to force one's self; as, a man crowds into a room.

Crowd

Crowd (crowd)
n.
Crowd
  1. A number of things collected or closely pressed together; also, a number of things adjacent to each other.

    A crowd of islands.
    Pope.

  2. A number of persons congregated or collected into a close body without order; a throng.

    The crowd of Vanity Fair.
    Macaulay.

    Crowds that stream from yawning doors.
    Tennyson.

  3. The lower orders of people; the populace; the vulgar; the rabble; the mob.

    To fool the crowd with glorious lies.
    Tennyson.

    He went not with the crowd to see a shrine.
    Dryden.

    Syn. -- Throng; multitude. See Throng.

Crowd

Crowd (crowd)
n.
Crowd
  1. An ancient instrument of music with six strings; a kind of violin, being the oldest known stringed instrument played with a bow.
    [Written also croud, crowth, cruth, and crwth.]

    A lackey that . . . can warble upon a crowd a little.
    B. Jonson.

Crowd

Crowd (crowd)
v. t.
Crowd
  1. To play on a crowd; to fiddle.
    [Obs.] "Fiddlers, crowd on." Massinger.












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