Lexic.us

Definition of Swarm

1. Noun. A moving crowd.

2. Verb. Be teeming, be abuzz. "The streets swarm with crowds"; "Her mind pullulated with worries"

3. Noun. A group of many things in the air or on the ground. "It discharged a cloud of spores"

4. Verb. Move in large numbers. "The crowds swarm in the streets"; "Beggars pullulated in the plaza"

Definition of Swarm

1. v. i. To climb a tree, pole, or the like, by embracing it with the arms and legs alternately. See Shin.

2. n. A large number or mass of small animals or insects, especially when in motion.

3. v. i. To collect, and depart from a hive by flight in a body; -- said of bees; as, bees swarm in warm, clear days in summer.

4. v. t. To crowd or throng.

Definition of Swarm

1. Noun. A large number of insects, especially when in motion or (for bees) migrating to a new colony. ¹

2. Noun. A mass of people or animals in turmoil. ¹

3. Verb. (intransitive) To move as a '''swarm'''. ¹

4. Verb. (intransitive) To teem, or be overrun with insects. ¹

5. Verb. (transitive) To fill a place as a '''swarm'''. ¹

6. Verb. (transitive) To overwhelm as by an opposing army. ¹

7. Verb. To climb by gripping with arms and legs. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Swarm

1. to move in a large group [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Swarm

sward swarded swardier swardiest swarding swards swardy sware swaree swarees

swarf swarf-penny swarfed swarfing swarfs swarm (current term) swarm spore swarm spores swarmed swarmer

swarmers swarming swarming(a) swarmings swarms swarmspores swart swartback swartbacks

Literary usage of Swarm

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1905)
"They are therefore liable to break up the initiating swarm by colliding with its members ... This contingency is especially great while the swarm is small, ..."

2. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun (1902)
"swarm-spore» of ... and »cap« of swarm-spores of Achlya proli/tra. ... of movement and of swarming about in water, whence they are called "swarm-spores". ..."

3. The Cultivator by New York State Agricultural Society (1847)
"have brought out the swarm. While examining a glass hive, ... When finished I predicated a swarm, (although none were crowded outside for want of room. ..."

4. English Mechanic and World of Science: With which are Incorporated "the (1883)
"This may be done, as A. Watkins says, in one of three ways :— Firstly, by buying, begging, or stealing a swarm ; secondly, by transferring an old stock ..."

5. The Heart of Oak Books by Kate Stephens, Charles Eliot Norton (1893)
"A swarm OF BEES. A swarm of bees in May Is worth a load of hay; A swarm of bees in June Is worth a silver spoon; A swarm of bees in July Is not worth a fly. ..."

6. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"THE WOUNDED MAN, AND TUE swarm Of ... A wretched Lazar lay distressed ; A swarm of Hies his bleeding ulcer> tore, And on his putrid carcass feast. ..."

7. The Life of the Bee by Maurice Maeterlinck (1901)
"II THE swarm [9] TTI 7"E will now, so as to draw more » • closely to nature, consider the different episodes of the swarm as they come to pass in an ..."

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