Swarm /(?)/

1. To climb a tree, pole, or the like, by embracing it with the arms and legs alternately. See Shin. [Colloq.]

   At the top was placed a piece of money, as a prize for those who could swarm up and seize it.

1. A large number or mass of small animals or insects, especially when in motion.
2. Especially, a great number of honeybees which emigrate from a hive at once, and seek new lodgings under the direction of a queen; a like body of bees settled permanently in a hive.
3. Hence, any great number or multitude, as of people in motion, or sometimes of inanimate objects; as, a swarm of meteorites.

   Those prodigious swarms that had settled themselves in every part of it [Italy].

imp. & p. p. Swarmed; p. pr. & vb. n. Swarming

1. To collect, and depart from a hive by flight in a body; -- said of bees; as, bees swarm in warm, clear days in summer.
2. To appear or collect in a crowd; to throng together; to congregate in a multitude.
3. To be crowded; to be thronged with a multitude of beings in motion.

   Every place swarms with soldiers.

4. To abound; to be filled (with).
5. To breed multitudes.

   Not so thick swarmed once the soil Bedropped with blood of Gorgon.

1. To crowd or throng.