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Definition & Synonyms
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• Crowd
- (v. t.) A number of persons congregated or collected into a close body without order; a throng.
- (v. t.) To fill by pressing or thronging together; hence, to encumber by excess of numbers or quantity.
- (v. t.) The lower orders of people; the populace; the vulgar; the rabble; the mob.
- (v. i.) To urge or press forward; to force ones self; as, a man crowds into a room.
- (v. t.) To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.
- (v. t.) To play on a crowd; to fiddle.
- (v. i.) To press together or collect in numbers; to swarm; to throng.
- (v. t.) To push, to press, to shove.
- (v. t.) A number of things collected or closely pressed together; also, a number of things adjacent to each other.
- (v. t.) To press or drive together; to mass together.
- (n.) An ancient instrument of music with six strings; a kind of violin, being the oldest known stringed instrument played with a bow.
Synonyms:
Bunch, Crew, Gang, Herd, Push,
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• Crow
- (v. i.) A bar of iron with a beak, crook, or claw; a bar of iron used as a lever; a crowbar.
- (v. i.) To shout in exultation or defiance; to brag.
- (v. i.) The cry of the cock. See Crow, v. i., 1.
- (v. i.) To make the shrill sound characteristic of a cock, either in joy, gayety, or defiance.
- (v. i.) The mesentery of a beast; -- so called by butchers.
- (v. i.) To utter a sound expressive of joy or pleasure.
- (v. i.) A bird, usually black, of the genus Corvus, having a strong conical beak, with projecting bristles. It has a harsh, croaking note. See Caw.
Synonyms:
Brag, Bragging, Crowing, Gloat, Triumph, Vaporing,
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• Crowder
- (n.) One who crowds or pushes.
- (n.) One who plays on a crowd; a fiddler.
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• Crowding
- (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crowd
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