inthrong

English

Etymology

From in- +‎ throng.

Verb

inthrong (third-person singular simple present inthrongs, present participle inthronging, simple past and past participle inthronged)

1. (intransitive, archaic) To throng or collect together.
   • 1600, [Torquato Tasso], “The Nineteenth Booke of Godfrey of Bulloigne”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes, →OCLC, stanza 37, page 344:

     His people like a flowing ſtreame inthrong, [...]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “inthrong”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• nonright, northing, thorning, throning