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throng

THRONG, n.

1. A crowd; a multitude of persons or of living beings pressing or pressed into a close body or assemblage; as a throng of people at a play-house.

2. A great multitude; as the heavenly throng.

THRONG, v.i. To crowd together; to press into a close body, as a multitude of persons; to come in multitudes.

I have seen

The dumb men throng to see him.

THRONG, v.t. To crowd or press, as persons; to oppress or annoy with a crowd of living beings.

Much people followed him, and thronged him. Mark 5.



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THRONG, n.

1. A crowd; a multitude of persons or of living beings pressing or pressed into a close body or assemblage; as a throng of people at a play-house.

2. A great multitude; as the heavenly throng.

THRONG, v.i. To crowd together; to press into a close body, as a multitude of persons; to come in multitudes.

I have seen

The dumb men throng to see him.

THRONG, v.t. To crowd or press, as persons; to oppress or annoy with a crowd of living beings.

Much people followed him, and thronged him. Mark 5.

THRONG, n. [Sax. thrang; Ir. drong; G. and D. drang. See the Verb.]

  1. A crowd; a multitude of persons or of living beings pressing or pressed into a close body or assemblage; as, a throng of people at a play-house.
  2. A great multitude; as, the heavenly throng.

THRONG, v.i. [Sax. thringan; D. dringen; G. drängen; Dan. trænger; Sw. tränga. If n is not radical, this word coincides with Sw. tryka, Dan. trykker, to press, to print. Class Rg.]

To crowd together; to press into a close body, as a multitude of persons; to come in multitudes. I have seen / The dumb men throng to see him. Shak.


THRONG, v.t.

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.


Throng
  1. A multitude of persons or of living beings pressing or pressed into a close body or assemblage; a crowd.
  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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).

  5. 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.

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

    Shak.
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Throng

THRONG, noun

1. A crowd; a multitude of persons or of living beings pressing or pressed into a close body or assemblage; as a throng of people at a play-house.

2. A great multitude; as the heavenly throng

THRONG, verb intransitive To crowd together; to press into a close body, as a multitude of persons; to come in multitudes.

I have seen

The dumb men throng to see him.

THRONG, verb transitive To crowd or press, as persons; to oppress or annoy with a crowd of living beings.

Much people followed him, and thronged him. Mark 5:24.

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IMPORT'ANCE, n.

1. Weight; consequence; a bearing on some interest; that quality of any thing by which it may affect a measure, interest or result. The education of youth is of great importance to a free government. A religious education is of infinite importance to every human being.

2. Weight or consequence in the scale of being.

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Nor bound thy narrow views to things below.

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