huddled : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: huddled	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for huddled
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
huddled adj crowded or massed together; "give me...your huddled masses"; "the huddled sheep turned their backs against the wind"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Huddle \Hud"dle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Huddled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Huddling}.] [Cf. OE. hoderen, hodren, to cover, keep, warm; perh. akin to OE. huden, hiden, to hide, E. hide, and orig. meaning, to get together for protection in a safe place. Cf. {Hide} to conceal.] To press together promiscuously, from confusion, apprehension, or the like; to crowd together confusedly; to press or hurry in disorder; to crowd. The cattle huddled on the lea. --Tennyson. Huddling together on the public square . . . like a herd of panic-struck deer. --Prescott.