throng

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A large group of people gathered or crowded closely together; a multitude. See Synonyms at crowd¹.
2. n. A large group of things; a host.
3. v. To crowd into; fill: commuters thronging the subway platform.
4. v. To press in on.
5. v. To gather, press, or move in a throng.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A crowd or great concourse of people; a multitude, great in proportion to the space it occupies or can occupy.
2. n. A great number: as, the heavenly throng.
3. n. A busy period, great press of business, or the time when business is most active: as, the throng of the harvest; he called just in the throng.
4. n. Synonyms Crowd, etc. See multitude.
5. To come (or go) in multitudes; press eagerly in crowds; crowd.
6. To crowd or press; press unduly upon, as a crowd or multitude of people anxious to view something.
7. To crowd into; fill as or as with a crowd.
8. To fill or stuff.
9. Thickly crowded or set close together; thronged; crowded.
10. Much occupied or engaged; busy.
11. Preterit of thring.

Wiktionary

1. n. A group of people crowded or gathered closely together; a multitude.
2. n. A group of things; a host or swarm.
3. v. transitive To crowd into a place, especially to fill it.
4. v. intransitive To congregate.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A multitude of persons or of living beings pressing or pressed into a close body or assemblage; a crowd.
2. n. A great multitude.
3. v. To crowd together; to press together into a close body, as a multitude of persons; to gather or move in multitudes.
4. v. To crowd, or press, as persons; to oppress or annoy with a crowd of living beings.
5. v. To crowd into; to fill closely by crowding or pressing into, as a hall or a street.
6. adj. Obs. or Prov. Eng. Thronged; crowded; also, much occupied; busy.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. press tightly together or cram
2. n. a large gathering of people