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   Thring , v. t. & i. [imp. Throng .] [AS. þringan. See Throng.] To press, crowd, or throng. [Obs.]
   Chaucer.
   
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   Throng , n. [OE. þrong, þrang, AS. geþrang, fr. þringan to crowd, to press; akin to OS. thringan, D. & G. dringen, OHG. dringan, Icel. þryngva, þröngva, Goth. þriehan, D. & G. drang a throng, press, Icel. þröng a throng, Lith. trenkti to jolt, tranksmas a tumult. Cf. Thring.]
   A multitude of persons or of living beings pressing or pressed into a close body or assemblage; a crowd.
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   A great multitude; as, the heavenly throng.
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   Syn. -- Throng, Multitude, Crowd.  Any great number of persons form a multitude; a throng is a large number of persons who are gathered or are moving together in a collective body; a crowd is composed of a large or small number of persons who press together so as to bring their bodies into immediate or inconvenient contact. A dispersed multitude; the throngs in the streets of a city; the crowd at a fair or a street fight. But these distinctions are not carefully observed.
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   So, with this bold opposer rushes on
   This many-headed monster, multitude.
   Daniel.
   
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   Not to know me argues yourselves unknown,
   The lowest of your throng.
   Milton.
   
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   I come from empty noise, and tasteless pomp,
   From crowds that hide a monarch from himself.
   Johnson.
   
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   Throng, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Thronged ; p. pr. & vb. n. Thronging.] To crowd together; to press together into a close body, as a multitude of persons; to gather or move in multitudes.
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   I have seen the dumb men throng to see him.
   Shak.
   
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   Throng, v. t.
   To crowd, or press, as persons; to oppress or annoy with a crowd of living beings.
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   Much people followed him, and thronged him.
   Mark v. 24.
   
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   To crowd into; to fill closely by crowding or pressing into, as a hall or a street.
   Shak.
   
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   Throng, a. Thronged; crowded; also, much occupied; busy. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
   Bp. Sanderson.
   
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   To the intent the sick . . . should not lie too throng.
   Robynson (More's Utopia).
   
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