Hypertext Webster Gateway: "swarmed"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Swarm \Swarm\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Swarmed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Swarming}.]
1. To collect, and depart from a hive by flight in a body; --
said of bees; as, bees swarm in warm, clear days in
summer.

2. To appear or collect in a crowd; to throng together; to
congregate in a multitude. --Chaucer.

3. To be crowded; to be thronged with a multitude of beings
in motion.

Every place swarms with soldiers. --Spenser.

4. To abound; to be filled (with). --Atterbury.

5. To breed multitudes.

Not so thick swarmed once the soil Bedropped with
blood of Gorgon. --Milton.

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