To fool the crowd with glorious lies.
Tennyson.
He went not with the crowd to see a shrine.
Dryden.
Syn. -- Throng; multitude. See Throng.
Crowd, n. [W. crwth; akin to Gael. cruit. Perh. named from its shape, and akin to Gr. kyrto`s curved, and E. curve. Cf. Rote.] An ancient instrument of music with six strings; a kind of violin, being the oldest known stringed instrument played with a bow. [Written also croud, crowth, cruth, and crwth.]
A lackey that . . . can warble upon a crowd a little.
B. Jonson.
Crowd, v. t. To play on a crowd; to fiddle. [Obs.] "Fiddlers, crowd on." Massinger.
Crowd"er (kroud"?r), n. One who plays on a crowd; a fiddler. [Obs.] "Some blind crowder." Sir P. Sidney.
Crowd"er, n. One who crowds or pushes.
Crow"dy (krou"d?), n. A thick gruel of oatmeal and milk or water; food of the porridge kind. [Scot.]
Crow"flow`er (kr?"flou`?r), n. (Bot.) A kind of campion; according to Gerarde, the Lychnis Flos-cuculi.
Crow"foot` (kr?"f??t`), n. 1. (Bot.) The genus Ranunculus, of many species; some are common weeds, others are flowering plants of considerable beauty.
2. (Naut.) A number of small cords rove through a long block, or euphroe, to suspend an awning by.