[W/K] :: swarm

  Swarm \Swarm\, n. [OE. swarm, AS. swearm; akin to D. zwerm, G.
     schwarm, OHG. swaram, Icel. svarmr a tumult, Sw. sv[aum]rm a
     swarm, Dan. svaerm, and G. schwirren to whiz, to buzz, Skr.
     svar to sound, and perhaps to E. swear. [root]177. Cf.
     Swerve, Swirl.]
     1. A large number or mass of small animals or insects,
        especially when in motion. "A deadly swarm of hornets."
        --Milton.
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     2. Especially, a great number of honeybees which emigrate
        from a hive at once, and seek new lodgings under the
        direction of a queen; a like body of bees settled
        permanently in a hive. "A swarm of bees." --Chaucer.
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     3. Hence, any great number or multitude, as of people in
        motion, or sometimes of inanimate objects; as, a swarm of
        meteorites.
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              Those prodigious swarms that had settled themselves
              in every part of it [Italy].          --Addison.
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     Syn: Multitude; crowd; throng.
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  Swarm \Swarm\, v. i. [Cf. Swerve.]
     To climb a tree, pole, or the like, by embracing it with the
     arms and legs alternately. See Shin. [Colloq.]
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           At the top was placed a piece of money, as a prize for
           those who could swarm up and seize it.   --W. Coxe.
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  Swarm \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.
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     2. To appear or collect in a crowd; to throng together; to
        congregate in a multitude. --Chaucer.
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     3. To be crowded; to be thronged with a multitude of beings
        in motion.
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              Every place swarms with soldiers.     --Spenser.
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     4. To abound; to be filled (with). --Atterbury.
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     5. To breed multitudes.
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              Not so thick swarmed once the soil
              Bedropped with blood of Gorgon.       --Milton.
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  Swarm \Swarm\, v. t.
     To crowd or throng. --Fanshawe.
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  swarm
       n 1: a moving crowd [syn: drove, horde]
       2: a group of many insects; "a swarm of insects obscured the
          light"; "a cloud of butterflies" [syn: cloud]
       v 1: be teeming, be abuzz; "The garden was swarming with bees";
            "The plaza is teeming with undercover policemen"; "her
            mind pullulated with worries" [syn: teem, pullulate]
       2: move in large numbers; "people were pouring out of the
          theater"; "beggars pullulated in the plaza" [syn: pour,
          stream, teem, pullulate]

  145 Moby Thesaurus words for "swarm":
     a mass of, a world of, abound, abound with, army, assemble, beset,
     bevy, bristle with, bunch, bunch up, burst with, charm, clot,
     cloud, cluster, clutter, collect, come together, congregate,
     converge, copulate, couple, covey, crawl, crawl with, creep with,
     crowd, date, drove, emigrate, emigration, expatriate, expatriation,
     fill, flight, flit, flock, flock together, flocks, flood, flow,
     flow together, forgather, fuse, gaggle, gang around, gang up,
     gather, gather around, hail, herd, herd together, hive, horde,
     host, huddle, immigrate, immigration, in-migrate, in-migration,
     infest, infestation, intermigrate, intermigration, invade,
     invasion, jam, know no bounds, large amount, league, legion, link,
     lots, lousiness, luxuriate, many, mass, masses of, meet, merge,
     migrate, migration, mill, mob, muchness, multitude, murmuration,
     muster, nest, numbers, out-migrate, out-migration, overabound,
     overbrim, overflow, overgrow, overrun, overrunning, overspill,
     overspread, overspreading, overswarm, overswarming, pack, passage,
     plague, plurality, pullulate, quantities, quite a few, rally,
     rally around, ravage, remigrate, remigration, rendezvous, rout,
     ruck, run, run riot, scores, seethe, shoal, skein, spill over,
     spring, stream, superabound, surge, swarm with, swarming,
     take wing, teem, teem with, teeming, throng, throng with, tidy sum,
     transmigrate, transmigration, trek, unite, watch, worlds of