Hypertext Webster Gateway: "swarming"
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
swarming
adj 1: abundantly filled with especially living things; "the Third
World's teeming millions"; "the teeming boulevard";
"harried by swarming rats" [syn: {teeming}]
2: (of birds and animals) tending to move or live together in
groups or colonies of the same kind; "ants are social
insects"; "the herding instinct in sheep or cattle";
"swarming behavior in bees" [syn: {herding(a)}, {swarming(a)},
{social}]
3: filled by being spread over; sometimes used in combination;
"the foe-swarming field"
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