Crowd, n. [AS. croda. See Crowd, v. t. ] 1. A number of things collected or closely pressed together; also, a number of things adjacent to each other.
A crowd of islands.
Pope.
2. A number of persons congregated or collected into a close body without order; a throng.
The crowd of Vanity Fair.
Macaulay.
Crowds that stream from yawning doors.
Tennyson.