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A heathlike plant of the genus
Empetrum, and its fruit, a black, scarcely edible berry; -
- also called crakeberry.Crowd (kroud), v. t. [imp.
& p. p. Crowded; p. pr. & vb.
n. Crowding.] [OE. crouden,
cruden, AS. cr&?;dan; cf. D. 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." Shak.
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.]
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 (Naut.),
to carry an
extraordinary amount of sail, with a view to accelerate the speed
of a vessel; to carry a press of sail.
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