Crowd /(kroud)/

Crowd

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Crowded; p. pr. & vb. n. Crowding

  1. To push, to press, to shove.
  2. To press or drive together; to mass together.
  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.]

Phrases & Compounds
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
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.
    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.

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.

Crowd

n.
  1. 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.

Crowd

v. t.
  1. To play on a crowd; to fiddle. [Obs.]