CROWD

crowd|croud. Crowd, or Croud, n. a multitude, mob, fiddle

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Crowd (kroud), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crowded; p. pr. & vb. n. Crowding.] [[OE. crouden, cruden, AS. cr�dan; cf. D. kruijen to push in a wheelbarrow.]] 1. 1. To push, to press, to shove. Chaucer.
2. 2. To press or drive together; to mass together. “Crowd us and crush us.” Shak.
3. 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. 4. To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.
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.