Of the individual things collectively: Existing or occurring in large numbers in a relatively small space, or at short intervals; densely arranged…

Pressed or massed closely together as a crowd; densely packed or crowded. Formerly also: †dense, close, thick (obsolete). Now rare.

Crowded. Obsolete.

(a) beaten; †(b) packed, crowded (obsolete).

Gathered, pressed, or clustered closely together.

Of things likened to ranks of soldiers.