CROWD

vt to push, to press, to shove.

2. crowd ·vt to press or drive together; to mass together.

3. crowd ·vt to play on a crowd; to fiddle.

4. crowd ·vt the lower orders of people; the populace; the vulgar; the rabble; the mob.

5. crowd ·vi to urge or press forward; to force one's self; as, a man crowds into a room.

6. crowd ·vt a number of persons congregated or collected into a close body without order; a throng.

7. crowd ·vt to fill by pressing or thronging together; hence, to encumber by excess of numbers or quantity.

8. crowd ·vi to press together or collect in numbers; to swarm; to throng.

9. crowd ·vt a number of things collected or closely pressed together; also, a number of things adjacent to each other.

10. crowd ·noun an ancient instrument of music with six strings; a kind of violin, being the oldest known stringed instrument played with a bow.

11. crowd ·vt to press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.