Throng /(?)/

Throng

n.
  1. A multitude of persons or of living beings pressing or pressed into a close body or assemblage; a crowd.
  2. A great multitude; as, the heavenly throng.
    So, with this bold opposer rushes on This many-headed monster, multitude.
    Not to know me argues yourselves unknown, The lowest of your throng.
    I come from empty noise, and tasteless pomp, From crowds that hide a monarch from himself.
Syn. -- Throng, Multitude, Crowd.

Any great number of persons form a multitude; a throng is a large number of persons who are gathered or are moving together in a collective body; a crowd is composed of a large or small number of persons who press together so as to bring their bodies into immediate or inconvenient contact. A dispersed multitude; the throngs in the streets of a city; the crowd at a fair or a street fight. But these distinctions are not carefully observed.

Throng

v. i.

imp. & p. p. Thronged; p. pr. & vb. n. Thronging

  1. To crowd together; to press together into a close body, as a multitude of persons; to gather or move in multitudes.
    I have seen the dumb men throng to see him.

Throng

v. t.
  1. To crowd, or press, as persons; to oppress or annoy with a crowd of living beings.
    Much people followed him, and thronged him.
    — Mark v. 24.
  2. To crowd into; to fill closely by crowding or pressing into, as a hall or a street.

Throng

a.
  1. Thronged; crowded; also, much occupied; busy. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
    To the intent the sick . . . should not lie too throng.