Wage earners collectively, excluding salaried workers; people who own no capital and depend on their labour for survival; the working class, especially when seen as engaged in a class struggle with the bourgeoisie (“the capital-owning class”).
The lowest class of society; also, the lower classes of society generally; the masses.
The lowest class of citizens, who had no property and few rights, and were regarded as contributing only their offspring to the state.
To fill a place as a swarm.
To climb by gripping with arms and legs alternately.
To overwhelm as by an opposing army.
To breed multitudes.
To move as a swarm.
To teem, or be overrun with insects, people, etc.
A mass of people, animals or things in motion or turmoil.
A large number of insects, especially when in motion or (for bees) migrating to a new colony.
A group of nodes sharing the same torrent in a BitTorrent network.