crowd

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1. 1.To press or drive together; to mass together. "Crowd us and crush us." Shak.
2. 2.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.
3. 3.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.
4. 4.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.
5. 5.To urge or press forward; to force one's self; as, a man crowds into a room.
6. 6.A number of things collected or closely pressed together; also, a number of things adjacent to each other. A crowd of islands. Pope.
7. 7.A number of persons congregated or collected into a close body without order; a throng. The crowd of Vanity Fair. Macualay. Crowds that stream from yawning doors. {\*\bkmkstart here}Tennyson.
8. 8.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. See Throng.
9. 9.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.
10. 10.To play on a crowd; to fiddle. [Obs.] "Fiddlers, crowd on." Massinger.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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• What is to press or drive together; to mass together. "Crowd us and crush us." Shak called?
• What is 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 called?
• What is to urge or press forward; to force one's self; as, a man crowds into a room called?
• What is a number of things collected or closely pressed together; also, a number of things adjacent to each other. A crowd of islands. Pope called?
• What is a number of persons congregated or collected into a close body without order; a throng. The crowd of Vanity Fair. Macualay. Crowds that stream from yawning doors. {\*\bkmkstart here}Tennyson called?
• What is 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. See Throng called?
• What is to play on a crowd; to fiddle. [Obs.] "Fiddlers, crowd on." Massinger called?