Crowd

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 , v. i. 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 ones self; as, a man crowds into a room.

crowd , n. (AS. croda. SeeCrowd, v. t. ) 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 , n. (W. crwth; akin toGael. cruit. Perh. named from its shape, and akin to Gr. kyrtos curved, and E. curve. Cf. Rote.) 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 , v. t. To play on acrowd; to fiddle. (Obs.) Fiddlers, crowd on. Massinger.