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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Swarm, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Swarmed p. pr. & vb. n. Swarming.]
 1. To collect, and depart from a hive by flight in a body; -- said of bees; as, bees swarm in warm, clear days in summer.
 2. To appear or collect in a crowd; to throng together; to congregate in a multitude.
 3. To be crowded; to be thronged with a multitude of beings in motion.
    Every place swarms with soldiers.   --Spenser.
 4. To abound; to be filled (with).
 5. To breed multitudes.
 Not so thick swarmed once the soil
 Bedropped with blood of Gorgon.   --Milton.