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Swarm

Swarm (swarm)
v. i.(?)
Swarm
[Cf. Swerve.]
  1. To climb a tree, pole, or the like, by embracing it with the arms and legs alternately. See Shin.
    [Colloq.]

    At the top was placed a piece of money, as a prize for those who could swarm up and seize it. W. Coxe.


Swarm

Swarm (swarm)
n.
Swarm
  1. A large number or mass of small animals or insects, especially when in motion.
    "A deadly swarm of hornets." Milton.
  2. Especially, a great number of honeybees which emigrate from a hive at once, and seek new lodgings under the direction of a queen; a like body of bees settled permanently in a hive.
    "A swarm of bees." Chaucer.
  3. Hence, any great number or multitude, as of people in motion, or sometimes of inanimate objects; as, a swarm of meteorites.

    Those prodigious swarms that had settled themselves in every part of it [Italy]. Addison.

    Syn. -- Multitude; crowd; throng.


Swarm

Swarm (swarm)
v. i.
Swarm
  1. To collect, and depart from a hive by flight in a body] -- said of bees; as, bees swarm in warm, clear days in summer.
  2. To appear or collect in a crowd; to throng together; to congregate in a multitude.
    Chaucer.
  3. To be crowded; to be thronged with a multitude of beings in motion.

    Every place swarms with soldiers. Spenser.

  4. To abound; to be filled (with).
    Atterbury.
  5. To breed multitudes.

    Not so thick swarmed once the soil
    Bedropped with blood of Gorgon.
    Milton.


Swarm

Swarm (swarm)
v. t.
Swarm
  1. To crowd or throng.
    Fanshawe.













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