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   Crowd , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crowded; p. pr. & vb. n. Crowding.] [OE.  crouden, cruden, AS. crūdan; cf. D.  kruijen to push in a wheelbarrow.]
   To push, to press, to shove.
   Chaucer.
   
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   To press or drive together; to mass together. “Crowd us and crush us.”  
   Shak.
   
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   To fill by pressing or thronging together; hence, to encumber by excess of numbers or quantity.
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   The balconies and verandas were crowded with spectators, anxious to behold their future sovereign.
   Prescott.
   
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   To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably. [Colloq.]
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   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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   Crowd, v. i.
   To press together or collect in numbers; to swarm; to throng.
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   The whole company crowded about the fire.
   Addison.
   
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   Images came crowding on his mind faster than he could put them into words.
   Macaulay.
   
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   To urge or press forward; to force one's self; as, a man crowds into a room.
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   Crowd, n. [AS.  croda. See Crowd, v. t. ]
   A number of things collected or closely pressed together; also, a number of things adjacent to each other.
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   A crowd of islands.
   Pope.
   
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   A number of persons congregated or collected into a close body without order; a throng.
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   The crowd of Vanity Fair.
   Macaulay.
   
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   Crowds that stream from yawning doors.
   Tennyson.
   
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   The lower orders of people; the populace; the vulgar; the rabble; the mob.
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   To fool the crowd with glorious lies.
   Tennyson.
   
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   He went not with the crowd to see a shrine.
   Dryden.
   Syn. -- Throng; multitude. See Throng.
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   Crowd, n. [W. crwth; akin to Gael. cruit. Perh. named from its shape, and akin to Gr. κυρτός curved, and E.  curve. Cf. Rote.] An ancient instrument of music with six strings; a kind of violin, being the oldest known stringed instrument played with a bow. [Written also croud, crowth, cruth, and crwth.]
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   A lackey that . . . can warble upon a crowd a little.
   B. Jonson.
   
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   Crowd, v. t. To play on a crowd; to fiddle. [Obs.] “Fiddlers, crowd on.”  
   Massinger.
   
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