Wiktionary - Recent changes [en]: crowd

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crowd Nov 3rd 2012, 15:45 ‎Etymology 2: ====Verb==== {{en-verb}} # {{obsolete|intransitive}} To play on a crowd; to fiddle. #* Massinger #*: Fiddlers, '''crowd''' on. ← Older revision Revision as of 15:45, 3 November 2012 Line 162: Line 162:   #* '''1819''': wandering palmers, hedge-priests, Saxon minstrels, and Welsh bards, were muttering prayers, and extracting mistuned dirges from their harps, '''crowds''', and rotes. — Walter Scott, ''Ivanhoe''   #* '''1819''': wandering palmers, hedge-priests, Saxon minstrels, and Welsh bards, were muttering prayers, and extracting mistuned dirges from their harps, '''crowds''', and rotes. — Walter Scott, ''Ivanhoe''   #* '''1684''': That keep their consciences in cases, / As fiddlers do with '''crowds''' and bases — Samuel Butler, "Hudibras"   #* '''1684''': That keep their consciences in cases, / As fiddlers do with '''crowds''' and bases — Samuel Butler, "Hudibras"   +   + ====Verb====   + {{en-verb}}   +   + # {{obsolete|intransitive}} To [[play]] on a crowd; to [[fiddle]].   + #* Massinger   + #*: Fiddlers, '''crowd''' on.       ===References===   ===References===

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