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(<i>v. i.</i>) To climb a tree, pole, or the like, by embracing it with the arms and legs alternately. See <a href="shin.htm">Shin</a>.<p>2. (<i>n.</i>) A large number or mass of small animals or insects, especially when in motion.<p>3. (<i>n.</i>) Especially, a great number of honeybees which emigrate from a hive at once, and seek new lodgings under the direction of a queen; a like body of bees settled permanently in a hive.<p>4. (<i>n.</i>) Hence, any great number or multitude, as of people in motion, or sometimes of inanimate objects; as, a swarm of meteorites.<p>5. (<i>v. i.</i>) To collect, and depart from a hive by flight in a body; -- said of bees; as, bees swarm in warm, clear days in summer.<p>6. (<i>v. i.</i>) To appear or collect in a crowd; to throng together; to congregate in a multitude.<p>7. (<i>v. i.</i>) To be crowded; to be thronged with a multitude of beings in motion.<p>8. (<i>v. i.</i>) To abound; to be filled (with).<p>9. (<i>v. i.</i>) To breed multitudes.<p>10. 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