Crowd (kroud), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crowded; p. pr. & vb. n. Crowding.] [OE. crouden, cruden, AS. crūdan; cf. D. kruijen to push in a wheelbarrow.] 1. To push, to press, to shove. Chaucer.
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2. To press or drive together; to mass together. “Crowd us and crush us.” Shak.
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3. To fill by pressing or thronging together; hence, to encumber by excess of numbers or quantity.
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The balconies and verandas were crowded with spectators, anxious to behold their future sovereign. Prescott.
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4. To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably. [Colloq.]
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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.
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Crowd, n. [AS. croda. See Crowd, v. t. ] 1. A number of things collected or closely pressed together; also, a number of things adjacent to each other.
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A crowd of islands. Pope.
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2. A number of persons congregated or collected into a close body without order; a throng.
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The crowd of Vanity Fair. Macaulay.
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Crowds that stream from yawning doors. Tennyson.
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3. The lower orders of people; the populace; the vulgar; the rabble; the mob.
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To fool the crowd with glorious lies. Tennyson.
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He went not with the crowd to see a shrine. Dryden.

Syn. -- Throng; multitude. See Throng.
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Crowd, v. t. To play on a crowd; to fiddle. [Obs.] “Fiddlers, crowd on.” Massinger.
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