verb

• (intransitive) To press forward; to advance by pushing.
  "The man crowded into the packed room."
• (intransitive) To press together or collect in numbers.
  "They crowded through the archway and into the park."
• (transitive) To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram.
  "He tried to crowd too many cows into the cow-pen."
• (transitive) To fill by pressing or thronging together
  "The balconies and verandas were crowded with spectators, anxious to behold their future sovereign."

noun

• (with definite article) The so-called lower orders of people; the populace; the vulgar.
  "He went not, with the Crowd, to ſee a Shrine;"

noun

• (obsolete) Alternative form of crwth.
  "A lackey that […] can warble upon a crowd a little."
• (now dialectal) A fiddle.
  "That keep their Consciences in Cases, / As Fiddlers do their Crowds and Bases,[…]"

verb

• (obsolete, intransitive) To play on a crowd; to fiddle.
  "Fiddlers, crowd on, crowd on."