Crowd
Crowd (kroud) , transitive verb
[Old English crouden, cruden, Anglo-Saxon crūdan; compare Dutch 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.
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. [Colloquial]
Collocations (2)
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 (Nautical) , to carry an extraordinary amount of sail, with a view to accelerate the speed of a vessel; to carry a press of sail.
Crowd , intransitive verb
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 , noun
[Anglo-Saxon croda. See Crowd, transitive verb ]
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 , noun
[Welsh crwth; akin to Gael. cruit. Perh. named from its shape, and akin to Greek kyrto`s curved, and English curve. Compare Rote.]
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 , transitive verb
To play on a crowd; to fiddle. [Obsolete]
Fiddlers, crowd on.