Noah Webster
Throng
THRONG, noun
1. A crowd; a multitude of persons or of living beings pressing or pressed into a close body or assemblage; as a throng of people at a play-house.
2. A great multitude; as the heavenly throng
THRONG, verb intransitive To crowd together; to press into a close body, as a multitude of persons; to come in multitudes.
I have seen
The dumb men throng to see him.
THRONG, verb transitive To crowd or press, as persons; to oppress or annoy with a crowd of living beings.
Much people followed him, and thronged him. Mark 5:24.