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Crowd, v. i. 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.

Crowd, n. [AS. croda. See
Crowd, v. t. ] 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.


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