73} assemblage; collection, collocation, colligation†; compilation,
levy, gathering, ingathering, muster, attroupement†; team; concourse,
conflux†, congregation, contesseration†, convergence &c 290; meeting,
levee, reunion, drawing room, at home; conversazione [It] &c (social
gathering) 892; assembly, congress; convention, conventicle; gemote†;
conclave &c (council) 696; posse, posse comitatus [Lat.]; Noah's ark.
miscellany, collectanea†; museum, menagerie &c (store) 636;
museology†.
crowd, throng, group; flood, rush, deluge; rabble, mob, press,
crush, cohue†, horde, body, tribe; crew, gang, knot, squad, band, party;
swarm, shoal, school, covey, flock, herd, drove; atajo†; bunch, drive,
force, mulada [U.S.]; remuda†; roundup [U.S.]; array, bevy, galaxy;
corps, company, troop, troupe, task force; army, regiment &c
(combatants) 726; host &c (multitude) 102; populousness.
clan, brotherhood, fraternity, sorority, association &c (party)
712.
volley, shower, storm, cloud.
group, cluster, Pleiades, clump, pencil; set, batch, lot, pack;
budget, assortment, bunch; parcel; packet, package; bundle, fascine†,
fasces†, bale; seron†, seroon†; fagot, wisp, truss, tuft; shock, rick,
fardel†, stack, sheaf, haycock†; fascicle, fascicule†, fasciculus [Lat.],
gavel, hattock†, stook†.
accumulation &c (store) 636; congeries, heap, lump, pile, rouleau†,
tissue, mass, pyramid; bing†; drift; snowball, snowdrift; acervation†,
cumulation; glomeration†, agglomeration; conglobation†; conglomeration,
conglomerate; coacervate [Chem], coacervation [Chem], coagmentation†,
aggregation, concentration, congestion, omnium gaterum [Lat.],
spicilegium†, black hole of Calcutta; quantity &c (greatness) 31.
collector, gatherer; whip, whipper in.
V. assemble [be or come together], collect, muster; meet, unite, join,
rejoin; cluster, flock, swarm, surge, stream, herd, crowd, throng,
associate; congregate, conglomerate, concentrate; precipitate; center
round, rendezvous, resort; come together, flock get together, pig
together; forgather; huddle; reassemble.
[get or bring together] assemble, muster; bring together, get
together, put together, draw together, scrape together, lump together;
collect, collocate, colligate†; get, whip in; gather; hold a meeting;
convene, convoke, convocate†; rake up, dredge; heap, mass, pile; pack,
put up, truss, cram; acervate†; agglomerate, aggregate; compile; group,
aggroup†, concentrate, unite; collect into a focus, bring into a focus;
amass, accumulate &c (store) 636; collect in a dragnet; heap Ossa upon
Pelion.
Adj. assembled &c v.; closely packed, dense, serried, crowded to
suffocation, teeming, swarming, populous; as thick as hops; all of a
heap, fasciculated cumulative.
Phr. the plot thickens; acervatim [Lat.]; tibi seris tibi metis [Lat.].