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a place for retirement from the world for religious duties. Fitter for a cloister than a crown. Daniel. Cloister garth (Arch.), the garden or open part of a court inclosed by the cloisters.

A great crowd or multitude; a vast collection. "So great a cloud of witnesses." Heb. xii. 1.

A number of individuals grouped together or collected in one place; a crowd; a mob. As bees . . . Pour forth their populous youth about the hive In clusters. Milton. We loved him; but, like beasts And cowardly nobles, gave way unto your clusters, Who did hoot him out o' the city. Shak.

To crowd together in disorder; to fill or cover with things in disorder; to throw into disorder; to disarrange; as, to clutter a room.

Raised into a pile; collected into a crowd; heaped. [R.] Bacon.

To press together; to crowd; to straiten; to confine closely. [Obs.] Bacon.

The crow of a cock, esp. the first crow in the morning; cockcrow. [Obs.] He begins at curfew, and walks till the first cock. Shak.

ality with another. In once he come to be a cardinal, He'll make his cap coequal with the crown. Shak.

he news and discuss it. Every coffeehouse had one or more orators, to whose eloquence the crowd listened with admiration, and who soon became what the journalists of our own time have been called -- a fourth estate of the realm. Macaulay.

ne used for keeping money or other valuables. Chaucer. In ivory coffers I have stuffed my crowns. Shak.

metimes also given to the Cimicifuga racemosa, and to two species of Actæa, plants of the Crowfoot family.

To assemble together; as, the people collected in a crowd; to accumulate; as, snow collects in banks.

A part or piece of anything; a portion. Cut two good collops out of the crown land. Fuller.

To gather or unite in a crowd or company. [A Latinism] "In one troop compelled." Dryden.

the object sought, and with before the person or thing competed with. Competition to the crown there is none, nor can be. Bacon. A portrait, with which one of Titian's could not come in competititon. Dryden. There is no competition but for the second place. Dryden. Where competition does not act at all there is comple…

irmer; to add strength to; to establish; as, health is confirmed by exercise. Confirm the crown to me and to mine heirs. Shak. Annd confirmed the same unto Jacob for a law. Ps. cv. 10.

Any running together of separate streams or currents; the act of meeting and crowding in a place; hence, a crowd; a concourse; an assemblage.

Crowded together. Gray.

Closely crowded together; densly clustered; as, conglomerate flowers. Gray.

orman (1027-1067) who invaded England, defeated Harold in the battle of Hastings, and was crowned king, in 1066.