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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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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. | |
