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English Dictionary: swarm	by the DICT Development Group
5 results for swarm
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
swarm n a moving crowd Synonym(s): drove, horde, swarm a group of many things in the air or on the ground; "a swarm of insects obscured the light"; "clouds of blossoms"; "it discharged a cloud of spores" Synonym(s): swarm, cloud v be teeming, be abuzz; "The garden was swarming with bees"; "The plaza is teeming with undercover policemen"; "her mind pullulated with worries" Synonym(s): teem, pullulate, swarm move in large numbers; "people were pouring out of the theater"; "beggars pullulated in the plaza" Synonym(s): pour, swarm, stream, teem, pullulate
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Swarm \Swarm\, v. i. [Cf. {Swerve}.] To climb a tree, pole, or the like, by embracing it with the arms and legs alternately. See {Shin}. [Colloq.] At the top was placed a piece of money, as a prize for those who could swarm up and seize it. --W. Coxe.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Swarm \Swarm\, v. t. To crowd or throng. --Fanshawe.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Swarm \Swarm\, n. [OE. swarm, AS. swearm; akin to D. zwerm, G. schwarm, OHG. swaram, Icel. svarmr a tumult, Sw. sv[84]rm a swarm, Dan. sv[91]rm, and G. schwirren to whiz, to buzz, Skr. svar to sound, and perhaps to E. swear. [fb]177. Cf. {Swerve}, {Swirl}.] 1. A large number or mass of small animals or insects, especially when in motion. [bd]A deadly swarm of hornets.[b8] --Milton. 2. Especially, a great number of honeybees which emigrate from a hive at once, and seek new lodgings under the direction of a queen; a like body of bees settled permanently in a hive. [bd]A swarm of bees.[b8] --Chaucer. 3. Hence, any great number or multitude, as of people in motion, or sometimes of inanimate objects; as, a swarm of meteorites. Those prodigious swarms that had settled themselves in every part of it [Italy]. --Addison. Syn: Multitude; crowd; throng.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Swarm \Swarm\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Swarmed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Swarming}.] 1. To collect, and depart from a hive by flight in a body; -- said of bees; as, bees swarm in warm, clear days in summer. 2. To appear or collect in a crowd; to throng together; to congregate in a multitude. --Chaucer. 3. To be crowded; to be thronged with a multitude of beings in motion. Every place swarms with soldiers. --Spenser. 4. To abound; to be filled (with). --Atterbury. 5. To breed multitudes. Not so thick swarmed once the soil Bedropped with blood of Gorgon. --Milton.