† enˈthrong, inˈthrong, v. Obs. rare.
[f. en-1, in- + throng n. and v.]
a. intr. To crowd in. b. trans. To encircle in a throng, beset.
| 1600 Fairfax Tasso xv. xli, The seas betwixt those Isles inthrong. Ibid. xix. xxxvii, His people like a flowing streame inthrong. 1603 Florio Montaigne iii. xiii. (1632) 627 Alcibiades..enthronged by his enemies. |