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.
--Dryden.
Syn: Throng; multitude. See {Throng}.
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.
A lackey that . . . can warble upon a crowd a little.
--B. Jonson.
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.