Dictionary entry

Swarm (3)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.