Throng (?), n. [OE. þrong, þrang, AS. geþrang, fr. þringan to crowd, to press; akin to OS. thringan, D. & G. dringen, OHG. dringan, Icel. þryngva, þrongva, Goth. þriehan, D. & G. drang a throng, press, Icel. þrong a throng, Lith. trenkti to jolt, tranksmas a tumult. Cf. Thring.]
1.
A multitude of persons or of living beings pressing or pressed into a close body or assemblage; a crowd.
2.
A great multitude; as, the heavenly throng.
Syn. -- Throng, Multitude, Crowd. Any great number of persons form a multitude; a throng is a large number of persons who are gathered or are moving together in a collective body; a crowd is composed of a large or small number of persons who press together so as to bring their bodies into immediate or inconvenient contact. A dispersed multitude; the throngs in the streets of a city; the crowd at a fair or a street fight. But these distinctions are not carefully observed.
So, with this bold opposer rushes on
This many-headed monster, multitude.
Daniel.
Not to know me argues yourselves unknown,
The lowest of your throng.
Milton.
I come from empty noise, and tasteless pomp,
From crowds that hide a monarch from himself.
Johnson.
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Throng, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Thronged (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Thronging.]
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.
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Throng, v. t.
1.
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.
2.
To crowd into; to fill closely by crowding or pressing into, as a hall or a street.
Shak.
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Throng, 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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