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erence, cause of variance, or quarrel; to dispute; to contend. We 'll never differ with a crowded pit. Rowe.

To crowd out; to take the place of. Holland displaced Portugal as the mistress of those seas. London Times.

ritatively set forth; precept; instruction; dogma. [Obs.] Learners should not be too much crowded with a heap or multitude of documents or ideas at one time. I. Watts.

A crowd of people in motion. Where droves, as at a city gate, may pass. Dryden.

disgraces! Shak. When to her eager lips is brought Her infant's thrilling kiss. Keble. A crowd of eager and curious schoolboys. Hawthorne. Conceit and grief an eager combat fight. Shak.

ne's way, to force one's way by pushing with the elbows; as, to elbow one's way through a crowd.

atisfaction among the people of the latter. Buzzing emissaries fill the ears Of listening crowds with jealousies and fears. Dryden.

gainst; a sudden or incidental meeting; an interview. To shun the encounter of the vulgar crowd. Pope.

to see at a glance; to discern unexpectedly; to spy; as, to espy land; to espy a man in a crowd. As one of them opened his sack to give his ass provender in the inn, . . . he espied his money. Gen. xlii. 27. A goodly vessel did I then espy Come like a giant from a haven broad. Wordsworth.

pation or enjoyment; to deprive of; to except; -- the opposite to admit; as, to exclude a crowd from a room or house; to exclude the light; to exclude one nation from the ports of another; to exclude a taxpayer from the privilege of voting. And none but such, from mercy I exclude. Milton.

cise the beds and cross the walls. Dryden. Mr. Spectator . . . do all you can to exorcise crowds who are . . . processed as I am. Spectator.

The season when leaves fall from trees; autumn. What crowds of patients the town doctor kills, Or how, last fall, he raised the weekly bills. Dryden.

To gather in companies or crowds. Friends daily flock. Dryden. Flocking fowl (Zoöl.), the greater scaup duck.

In flocks; in crowds. [Obs.]

by the means of their wickedness. Nelson. We say Of those that held their heads above the crowd, They flourished then or then. Tennyson.

A crowd, a rabble. [Obs.] ares.

To freight; to load; to burden; to fill; to crowd. [Obs.] Upon the tumbling billows fraughted ride The armed ships. Fairfax.

A crowd; a throng; a concourse. [Archaic.] Tennyson.

A crowd; a throng. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Full; crowded; thronged. [Obs.] 'T is Cæsar's will to have a frequent senate. B. Jonson.