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Webster 1913 Edition

Crowd

Crowd

(kroud)
,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Crowded
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Crowding
.]
[OE.
crouden
,
cruden
, AS.
crūdan
; cf. D.
kruijen
to push in a wheelbarrow.]
1.
To push, to press, to shove.
Chaucer.
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

,
Verb.
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 one’s self;
as, a man
crowds
into a room
.

Crowd

,
Noun.
[AS.
croda
. See
Crowd
,
Verb.
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.
Syn. – Throng; multitude. See
Throng
.

Crowd

,
Noun.
[W.
crwth
; akin to Gael.
cruit
. Perh. named from its shape, and akin to Gr.
κυρτόσ
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

,
Verb.
T.
To play on a crowd; to fiddle.
[Obs.]
“Fiddlers, crowd on.”
Massinger.

Webster 1828 Edition

Crowd

CROWD

, CROWTH,
Noun.
An instrument of music with six strings; a kind of violin.

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