noun.
A large number or body of insects or other small creatures, particularly when moving in a confused mass.
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Especially, a cluster or great number of honey-bees which emigrate from a hive at once, and seek new lodgings under the direction of a queen; also, a like body of bees settled permanently in a hive.
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In general, a great number or multitude; particularly, a multitude of people in motion: often used of inanimate objects: as, a swarm of meteors.
noun.
Synonyms Crowd, throng, cluster.
To move in a swarm or in large numbers, as insects and other small creatures; specifically, to collect and depart from a hive by flight in a body, as bees.
To appear or come together in a crowd or confused multitude; congregate or throng in multitudes; crowd together with confused movements.
To be crowded; be overrun; be thronged with a multitude; abound; be filled with a number or crowd of objects.
To breed multitudes.
To crowd or throng.
To cause to breed in swarms.
To climb a tree, pole, or the like by embracing it with the arms and legs; shin: often with up.
To climb, as a tree, by embracing it with the arms and legs, and scrambling up.