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Definition: croud
Crowd
\Crowd\, n. [W. crwth; akin to Gael. cruit. Perh. named
from its shape, and akin to Gr. kyrto`s curved, and E. curve.
Cf.
Rote.]
An ancient instrument of music with six strings; a kind of
violin, being the oldest known stringed instrument played
with a bow. [Written also
croud,
crowth,
cruth, and
crwth.]
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A lackey that . . . can warble upon a crowd a little.
--B. Jonson.
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