Crowd — Defs

01 v. t. To push, to press, to shove.

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.” — Prescott.
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.

02 v. i. To press together or collect in numbers; to swarm; to throng.

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.

03 n. A number of things collected or closely pressed together; also, a number of things adjacent to each other.

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.

“He went not with the crowd to see a shrine.” — Dryden.

Syn. Throng; multitude. See Throng.

04 n. An ancient instrument of music with six strings; a kind of violin, being the oldest known stringed instrument played with a bow.

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.” — B. Jonson.

05 v. t. To play on a crowd; to fiddle.