Cluster | Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Clüs'ter, n.

noun

n. [A-S. cluster, clyster. Cf. Sw. & Dan. klase, a cluster of grapes, and D. klissen, to be entangled.]

Sense 1. A number of things of the same kind growing, joined, or collected together.

Her deeds were like great clusters of ripe grapes, Which load the bunches of the fruitful vine. Spenser.

Sense 2. A number of similar things collected together or lying contiguous. “Cluster of islands.” Dampier. “Cluster of provinces.” Motley.

Sense 3. A number of people brought together; a crowd.

Giants in a cluster thick to Tellus fell at last. Turberville.

As bees

In spring time, when the sun with Taurus rides, Pour forth their populous youth about the hive In clusters. Milton.

verbintransitive

v. i. [imp. & p. p. CLUSTERED; p. pr. & vb. n. CLUSTERING.] To grow in clusters; to gather or unite in a bunch or mass.

Clustering grapes are thy peculiar care. Dryden.

verbtransitive

v. t. To collect into a bunch or close body. “Clustered flower-bells.” Tennyson.

Or from the forest falls the clustered snow. Thomson.

Clustered column (Arch.), a column which is composed, or appears to be composed, of several columns collected together.