Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for CROWD
CROWD, v.t.
- 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 lawyer's library.
- To encumber by multitudes. – Shak.
- 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.
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