(seismology) A number of small earthquakes (or other seismic events) occurring, with no clear cause, in a specific area within a relatively short space of time.
2020, Daniel Yergin, The New Map, Penguin, published 2021, page 28:
Earthquakes were another concern, particularly after swarms were felt in Oklahoma.
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There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy. Mail bags, so I understand, are being put on board. Stewards, carrying cabin trunks, swarm in the corridors.
1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande[…], Dublin:[…] Societie of Stationers,[…], →OCLC; republished as A View of the State of Ireland[…] (Ancient Irish Histories), Dublin:[…] Society of Stationers, […] Hibernia Press, […][b]y John Morrison, 1809, →OCLC:
2019 March 6, Drachinifel, 37:59 from the start, in The Battle of Samar (Alternate History) - Bring on the Battleships!, archived from the original on 20 July 2022:
So, yeah. The overall conclusion of the big gunfight being that, if Yamato is able to tackle the Colorados early, then the Japanese probably have a, maybe a sixty-to-sixty-five-percent chance of pulling this off... although you say "pulling it off", it's more a case of "the Japanese are the last battleship standing"; they tend to then just get swarmed by angry Fletchers[…]
To climb by gripping with arms and legs alternately.
1784, William Coxe, Travels into Poland, Russia, Sweden and Denmark:
At the top was placed a piece of money, as a prize for those who could swarm up and seize it.
She called out, and a boy came running along. He swarmed up a tree, and presently threw down a ripe nut. Ata pierced a hole in it, and the doctor took a long, refreshing draught.
To breed multitudes.
1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost.[…], London:[…][Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker[…]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter[…]; [a]nd Matthias Walker,[…], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books:[…], London: Basil Montagu Pickering[…], 1873, →OCLC, lines 526–527:
Not ſo thick ſwarm'd once the Soil / Bedropt with blood of Gorgon,
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