An instrument of music with six strings; a kind of violin.

Properly, a collection; a number of things collected, or closely pressed together.

A number of persons congregated and pressed together, or collected into a close body without order; a throng. Hence,

A multitude; a great number collected.

A number of things near together; a number promiscuously assembled or lying near each other; as a crowd of isles in the Egean Sea.

The lower orders of people; the populace; the vulgar.

To press; to urge; to drive together.

To fill by pressing numbers together without order; as, to crowd a room with people; to crowd the memory with ideas.

To fill to excess. Volumes of reports crowd a lawyers library.

To encumber by multitudes.

To urge; to press by solicitation; to dun.

In seamanship, to crowd sail, is to carry an extraordinary force of sail, with a view to accelerate the course of a ship, as in chasing or escaping from an enemy; to carry a press of sail.

To press in numbers; as, the multitude crowded through the gate or into the room.

To press; to urge forward; as, the man crowded into the room.

To swarm or be numerous.