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racter or happiness; perfect; pure; supremely blessed; as, a heavenly race; the heavenly, throng. The love of heaven makes one heavenly. Sir P. Sidney.

Any great number or multitude; a throng. And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God. Luke ii. 13. All at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils. Wordsworth.

blend or merge. [R.] The gathering number, as it moves along, Involves a vast involuntary throng. Pope. Earth with hell To mingle and involve. Milton.

A confused heap; a throng, as of persons; a jumble, as of sounds. [Obs.] To turn prayer into a kind of lurry. Milton.

dens; suitable to, or characteristic of, a virgin; as, maiden innocence. "Amid the maiden throng." Addison. Have you no modesty, no maiden shame Shak.

bravery; military conduct; military renown. Nor do I, as an enemy to peace, Troop in the throngs of military men. Shak.

uly. Nor is discontent to keep the mind Deep in its fountain, lest it overboil In the hot throng. Byron.

A mark or expression of applause; praise bestowed. Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng. Longfellow.

Of or pertaining to the common people; vulgar; common; as, plebeian sports; a plebeian throng.

To adorn with pictures. [R.] Spear and helmets thronged, and shields Various with boastful arguments potrayed. Milton.

A collection of people; a throng; a rabble. [Colloq.]

sly and abundantly; as, the rain pours; the people poured out of the theater. In the rude throng pour on with furious pace. Gay.

Press; throng. [Obs.] Chaucer.

rowding; to make one's way with violence or effort; to bear onward forcibly; to crowd; to throng; to encroach. They pressed upon him for to touch him. Mark iii. 10.

ll offensive and displeasing truths. Atterbury. So much they scorn the crowd, that if the throng By chance go right, they purposely go wrong. Pope.

A tumultuous crowd of vulgar, noisy people; a mob; a confused, disorderly throng.

A tumultuous crowd; a rabble; a noisy throng.

A troop; a throng; a company; an assembly; especially, a traveling company or throng. [Obs.] "A route of ratones [rats]." Piers Plowman. "A great solemn route." Chaucer. And ever he rode the hinderest of the route. Chaucer. A rout of people there assembled were. Spenser.

f things according to their own private appetites and selfish passions. Cudworth. In that throng of selfish hearts untrue. Keble.

A great multitude assembled; a crowd; a throng; -- said especially of fish; as, a shoal of bass. "Great shoals of people." Bacon. Beneath, a shoal of silver fishes glides. Waller.