Word Meanings - SWARM - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To climb a tree, pole, or the like, by embracing it with the arms and legs alternately. See Shin. At the top was placed a piece of money, as a prize for those who could swarm up and seize it. W. Coxe.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SWARM)
- Abound
- Stream
- swell
- flow
- increase
- overflow
- superabound
- luxuriate
- teem
- swarm
- flourish
- prevail
- be plentiful
- wanton
- revel
- multiply
- Climb
- Ascend
- mount
- clamber
- surmount
- scale
- escalade
- soar
- creep up
- rise
- Crew
- Complement
- company
- gang
- herd
- set
- miscellany
- horde
- band
- Crowd
- Throng
- mob
- pack
- Multitude
- accumulation
- throng
- concourse
- number
- host
- rabble
Related words: (words related to SWARM)
- MOUNTABLE
Such as can be mounted. - OVERFLOWINGLY
In great abundance; exuberantly. Boyle. - MOUNTING
1. The act of one that mounts. 2. That by which anything is prepared for use, or set off to advantage; equipment; embellishment; setting; as, the mounting of a sword or diamond. - ASCENDANCY; ASCENDANCE
See ASCENDENCY - WANTON
wanting , hence expressing negation + towen, p. p., AS. togen, p. p. of teón to draw, to educate, bring up; hence, 1. Untrained; undisciplined; unrestrained; hence, loose; free; luxuriant; roving; sportive. "In woods and wanton wilderness." - MOUNTAINOUS
1. Full of, or containing, mountains; as, the mountainous country of the Swiss. 2. Inhabiting mountains. Bacon. 3. Large as, or resembling, a mountain; huge; of great bulk; as, a mountainous heap. Prior. - MOUNTAINOUSNESS
The state or quality of being mountainous. - CREEP
to D. kruipen, G. kriechen, Icel. krjupa, Sw. krypa, Dan. krybe. Cf. 1. To move along the ground, or on any other surface, on the belly, as a worm or reptile; to move as a child on the hands and knees; to crawl. Ye that walk The earth, and stately - NUMBERFUL
Numerous. - PLENTIFUL
1. Containing plenty; copious; abundant; ample; as, a plentiful harvest; a plentiful supply of water. 2. Yielding abundance; prolific; fruitful. If it be a long winter, it is commonly a more plentiful year. Bacon. 3. Lavish; profuse; prodigal. - REVELLENT
Causing revulsion; revulsive. -- n. - CLIMB
To ascend or creep upward by twining about a support, or by attaching itself by tendrills, rootlets, etc., to a support or upright surface. (more info) 1. To ascend or mount laboriously, esp. by use of the hands and feet. 2. To ascend as if with - CROWD
1. To push, to press, to shove. Chaucer. 2. To press or drive together; to mass together. "Crowd us and crush us." Shak. 3. To fill by pressing or thronging together; hence, to encumber by excess of numbers or quantity. The balconies and verandas - ASCENDENCY
Governing or controlling influence; domination; power. An undisputed ascendency. Macaulay. Custom has an ascendency over the understanding. Watts. Syn. -- Control; authority; influence; sway; dominion; prevalence; domination. - REVEL
See REVEAL - HORDEIN
A peculiar starchy matter contained in barley. It is complex mixture. - CREEPY
Crawly; having or producing a sensation like that caused by insects creeping on the skin. One's whole blood grew curdling and creepy. R. Browning. - SCALEBOARD
A thin slip of wood used to justify a page. Crabb. 2. A thin veneer of leaf of wood used for covering the surface of articles of firniture, and the like. Scaleboard plane, a plane for cutting from a board a wide shaving forming a scaleboard. - MOUNTANT
Raised; high. - CREEPLE
1. A creeping creature; a reptile. There is one creeping beast, or long creeple (as the name is in Devonshire), that hath a rattle at his tail that doth discover his age. Morton . 2. One who is lame; a cripple. Thou knowest how lame a creeple - REINCREASE
To increase again. - DEMOUNT
To dismount. - GUNTER'S SCALE
A scale invented by the Rev. Edmund Gunter , a professor of astronomy at Gresham College, London, who invented also Gunter's chain, and Gunter's quadrant. Note: Gunter's scale is a wooden rule, two feet long, on one side of which are marked scales - BRABBLE
To clamor; to contest noisily. - INSURMOUNTABILITY
The state or quality of being insurmountable. - UPSWELL
To swell or rise up. - INTHRONG
To throng or collect together. Fairfax. - TRUST COMPANY
Any corporation formed for the purpose of acting as trustee. Such companies usually do more or less of a banking business.