Obs. Forms: α. 3–4 þring, þ-, thryng, 4 thring. β. 3 þrung (ü). [f. OE. ʓeþring neut. press, crowd, tumult, f. þring-an to press, crowd. The β-forms probably belong here.]
1. A crowd, press, or throng of people.
[a. 1000. Andreas, 368 (Gr.). Pæt hi þe eað mihton ofer yða ʓeþring drohtað adreoʓan.]
c. 1205. Lay., 12448. Heo comen to hustinge mid alle heore þringe. Ibid., 27524. Amidden þan þrunge [c. 1275 þringe] þer heo þihkest weoren.
a. 1225. Ancr. R., 160. Engel to mon ine þrunge ne scheawude him neuer ofte.
c. 1275. Wom. Samaria, 72, in O. E. Misc., 86. Monye … vrnen vt of þe bureuh myd wel Muchel þrynge.
13[?]. K. Alis., 2533. Aboutyn heom they can go; Parforce smyten into the thrynge.
13[?]. Sir Beues (A.), 1365. Vnneþe i scapede among þat þring, For to bringe þe tiding!
2. Pressure, tightness; some kind of disease.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 11821 (Cott.). Þe scab ouer-gas his bodi all, In his sides him held þe thring.
