Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CROWD, n. [Sax. cruth, cread. See Crew.]

1. Properly, a collection; a number of things collected, or closely pressed together.
2. A number of persons congregated and pressed together, or collected into a close body without order; a throng. Hence,
3. A multitude; a great number collected.
4. A number of things near together; a number promiscuously assembled or lying near each other; as, a crowd of isles in the Egean Sea.
5. The lower orders of people; the populace; the vulgar. – Dryden.