CROWD (3)

Crowd, n. [[AS. croda. See Crowd, v. t. ]] 1. 1. A number of things collected or closely pressed together; also, a number of things adjacent to each other.
A crowd of islands. Pope. 2. 2. A number of persons congregated or collected into a close body without order; a throng.
The crowd of Vanity Fair. Macaulay. Crowds that stream from yawning doors. Tennyson. 3. 3. The lower orders of people; the populace; the vulgar; the rabble; the mob.
To fool the crowd with glorious lies. Tennyson. He went not with the crowd to see a shrine. Dryden. Syn. — Throng; multitude. See Throng.