crowd

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A large number of persons gathered together; a throng.
• noun The common people; the populace.
• noun A group of people united by a common characteristic, as age, interest, or vocation.
• noun A group of people attending a public function; an audience.
• noun A large number of things positioned or considered together.
• intransitive verb To gather together in a limited space.
• intransitive verb To move forward by pressing or shoving.
• intransitive verb To force by pressing or shoving.
• intransitive verb To force away by taking up space; displace:
• intransitive verb To draw or stand very near or too near to.
• intransitive verb To press, cram, or force tightly together.
• intransitive verb To fill or occupy to overflowing.
• intransitive verb Informal To put pressure on; assail.
• idiom (crowd (on) sail) To spread a large amount of sail to increase speed.
• noun An ancient Celtic stringed instrument that was bowed or plucked.
• noun Chiefly British A fiddle.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A collection; a multitude; a large number of things collected or grouped together; a number of things lying near one another.
• noun A large number of persons congregated together, or gathered into a close body without order; a throng.
• noun Any group or company of persons: as, a jolly crowd.
• noun People in general; the populace; the mass; the mob.
• noun Same as crode.
• noun Synonyms and Throng, etc. (see multitude), host, swarm, concourse, shoal.
• To push; force forward; shove; impel.
• To push or wheel in a wheelbarrow.
• To press close, or closely together; push or drive in; squeeze; cram: as, to crowd too much freight into a ship; to crowd many people into a small room.
• To fill to excess; occupy or pack with an unusual or inordinate number or quantity: as, the audience crowded the theater; to crowd a ship's hold.
• To throng about; press upon; press as by a multitude: as, we were most uncomfortably crowded.
• To encumber or annoy by multitudes or excess of numbers.
• To urge; press by solicitation; importune; annoy by urging: as, to crowd a debtor for immediate payment.
• To press in numbers; come together closely; swarm: as, the multitude crowded through the gate or into the room.
• To press forward; increase speed; advance pushingly, as against obstacles: as, to crowd into a full room, or into company.
• To play on a crowd or fiddle.
• noun An ancient Welsh and Irish musical instrument, the earliest known specimen of the viol class—that is, of stringed instruments played with a bow.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• intransitive verb To press together or collect in numbers; to swarm; to throng.
• intransitive verb To urge or press forward; to force one's self.
• noun An ancient instrument of music with six strings; a kind of violin, being the oldest known stringed instrument played with a bow.
• noun A number of things collected or closely pressed together; also, a number of things adjacent to each other.
• noun A number of persons congregated or collected into a close body without order; a throng.
• noun The lower orders of people; the populace; the vulgar; the rabble; the mob.
• transitive verb obsolete To play on a crowd; to fiddle.
• transitive verb To push, to press, to shove.
• transitive verb To press or drive together; to mass together.
• transitive verb To fill by pressing or thronging together; hence, to encumber by excess of numbers or quantity.
• transitive verb colloq. To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.
• transitive verb to press out; specifically, to prevent the publication of; as, the press of other matter crowded out the article.
• transitive verb (Naut.) to carry an extraordinary amount of sail, with a view to accelerate the speed of a vessel; to carry a press of sail.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun obsolete A crwth, an Ancient Celtic plucked string instrument.
• noun now dialectal A fiddle.
• verb obsolete, intransitive To play on a crowd; to fiddle.
• verb transitive To push, to press, to shove.