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Crowd   /kraʊd/   Listen
noun
Crowd  n.  
1.
A number of things collected or closely pressed together; also, a number of things adjacent to each other. "A crowd of islands."
2.
A number of persons congregated or collected into a close body without order; a throng. "The crowd of Vanity Fair." "Crowds that stream from yawning doors."
3.
The lower orders of people; the populace; the vulgar; the rabble; the mob. "To fool the crowd with glorious lies." "He went not with the crowd to see a shrine."
Synonyms: Throng; multitude. See Throng.


Crowd  n.  (Written also croud, crowth, cruth, and crwth)  An ancient instrument of music with six strings; a kind of violin, being the oldest known stringed instrument played with a bow. "A lackey that... can warble upon a crowd a little."


verb
Crowd  v. t.  (past & past part. crowded; pres. part. crowding)  
1.
To push, to press, to shove.
2.
To press or drive together; to mass together. "Crowd us and crush us."
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."
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. t.  To play on a crowd; to fiddle. (Obs.) "Fiddlers, crowd on."


Crowd  v. i.  
1.
To press together or collect in numbers; to swarm; to throng. "The whole company crowded about the fire." "Images came crowding on his mind faster than he could put them into words."
2.
To urge or press forward; to force one's self; as, a man crowds into a room.





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"Crowd" Quotes from Famous Books



... of instances, wounds that demand attention are the result of shoe calks which have penetrated the tissues in the region of the coronary band. Often calk wounds are self-inflicted. When animals are excited and in turning crowd one another, they often perform dancing movements which frequently result in deep calk wounds of the coronet. Some horses have a habit of resting the heel of one hind foot upon the anterior coronary region of the other. While sleeping in this ...
— Lameness of the Horse - Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 • John Victor Lacroix
... went with the sanitary police on their midnight inspection through a row of Elizabeth Street tenements which I had known since they were built, seventeen or eighteen years ago. That is the neighborhood in which the recent Italian immigrants crowd. In the house which we selected for examination, in all respects the type of the rest, we found forty-three families where there should have been sixteen. Upon each floor were four flats, and in each flat three rooms that measured respectively ...
— The Battle with the Slum • Jacob A. Riis
... laborer ox Stands covered o'er with snow, and then demands The fruit of all his toil. The fowls of heaven, Tamed by the cruel season, crowd around The winnowing store, and claim the little boon ...
— McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader • William Holmes McGuffey
... a carriage, and, urging the driver to use speed, was hastily conveyed by the road to a part whence a few steps brought him down to the sea. He thrust wildly in among the crowd. ...
— Love Me Little, Love Me Long • Charles Reade
... Ebert spoke with Governor Hatfield, both making appeals for votes for women. At the annual Fall Festival at Huntington a suffrage float designed by Mrs. E. C. Venable was in the parade. At Parkersburg suffragists addressed an immense crowd ...
— The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI • Various


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