THRONG

n. v. a.

6 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

A multitude of persons or of living beings pressing or pressed into a close body or assemblage; a crowd.

2.
n.

A great multitude; as, the heavenly throng.

3.
v.

To crowd together; to press together into a close body, as a multitude of persons; to gather or move in multitudes. I have seen the dumb men throng to see him. Shak.

4.
v.

To crowd, or press, as persons; to oppress or annoy with a crowd of living beings. Much people followed him, and thronged him. Mark v. 24.

5.
v.

To crowd into; to fill closely by crowding or pressing into, as a hall or a street. Shak.

6.
a.

Thronged; crowded; also, much occupied; busy. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Bp. Sanderson. To the intent the sick . . . should not lie too throng. Robynson (More's Utopia).

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