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Crowd
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(v. t.) To push, to press, to shove.
(2):
(v. t.) A number of persons congregated or collected into a close body without order; a throng.
(3):
(v. t.) The lower orders of people; the populace; the vulgar; the rabble; the mob.
(4):
(v. i.) To press together or collect in numbers; to swarm; to throng.
(5):
(v. t.) To play on a crowd; to fiddle.
(6):
(n.) An ancient instrument of music with six strings; a kind of violin, being the oldest known stringed instrument played with a bow.
(7):
(v. t.) To press or drive together; to mass together.
(8):
(v. t.) To fill by pressing or thronging together; hence, to encumber by excess of numbers or quantity.
(9):
(v. t.) To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.
(10):
(v. i.) To urge or press forward; to force one's self; as, a man crowds into a room.
(11):
(v. t.) A number of things collected or closely pressed together; also, a number of things adjacent to each other.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Crowd'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/c/crowd.html. 1828.
