Part 2618

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To press or drive together; to mass together.</def> "<i>Crowd</i> us and crush us."

<i>Shak.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To fill by pressing or thronging together; hence, to encumber by excess of numbers or quantity.</def>

<blockquote>The balconies and verandas were <b>crowded</b> with spectators, anxious to behold their future sovereign. <i>Prescott.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.</def> <mark>[Colloq.]</mark>

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

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<hw>Crowd</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To press together or collect in numbers; to swarm; to throng.</def>

<blockquote>The whole company <b>crowded</b> about the fire. <i>Addison.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Images came <b>crowding</b> on his mind faster than he could put them into words. <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To urge or press forward; to force one's self; <as>as, a man <ex>crowds</ex> into a room</as>.</def>

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<hw>Crowd</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[AS. <ets>croda</ets>. See <er>Crowd</er>, <tt>v. t.</tt> ]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A number of things collected or closely pressed together; also, a number of things adjacent to each other.</def>

<blockquote>A <b>crowd</b> of islands. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A number of persons congregated or collected into a close body without order; a throng.</def>

<blockquote>The <b>crowd</b> of Vanity Fair. <i>Macualay.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote><b>Crowds</b> that stream from yawning doors. <i>{\*\bkmkstart here}Tennyson.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>The lower orders of people; the populace; the vulgar; the rabble; the mob.</def>

<blockquote>To fool the <b>crowd</b> with glorious lies. <i>Tennyson.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>He went not with the <b>crowd</b> to see a shrine. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- Throng; multitude. See <er>Throng</er>.</syn>

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<hw>Crowd</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[W. <ets>crwth</ets>; akin to Gael. <ets>cruit</ets>. Perh. named from its shape, and akin to Gr. <?/<?/<?/<?/ curved, and E. <ets>curve</ets>. Cf. <er>Rote</er>.]</ety> <def>An ancient instrument of music with six strings; a kind of violin, being the oldest known stringed instrument played with a bow.</def> <altsp>[Written also <asp>croud</asp>, <asp>crowth</asp>, <asp>cruth</asp>, and <asp>crwth</asp>.]</altsp>

<blockquote>A lackey that . . . can warble upon a <b>crowd</b> a little. <i>B. Jonson.</i></blockquote>

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<hw>Crowd</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To play on a crowd; to fiddle.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> "Fiddlers, <i>crowd</i> on."

<i>Massinger.</i>