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Webster 1913 Edition


Mob

Mob

,
Noun.
[See
Mobcap
.]
A mobcap.
Goldsmith.

Mob

,
Verb.
T.
To wrap up in, or cover with, a cowl.
[R.]

Mob

,
Noun.
[L.
mobile vulgus
, the movable common people. See
Mobile
,
Noun.
]
1.
The lower classes of a community; the populace, or the lowest part of it.
A cluster of
mob
were making themselves merry with their betters.
Addison.
2.
Hence:
A throng; a rabble; esp., an unlawful or riotous assembly; a disorderly crowd.
The
mob
of gentlemen who wrote with ease.
Pope.
Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a
mob
.
Madison.
Confused by brainless
mobs
.
Tennyson.
Mob law
,
law administered by the mob; lynch law.
Swell mob
,
well dressed thieves and swindlers, regarded collectively.
[Slang]
Dickens.

Mob

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Mobbed
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Mobbing
.]
To crowd about, as a mob, and attack or annoy;
as, to
mob
a house or a person
.

Webster 1828 Edition


Mob

MOB

,
Noun.
[from L. mobilis, movable, variable.]
1.
A crowd or promiscuous multitude of people, rude, tumultuous and disorderly.
2.
A disorderly assembly.
Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.
3.
A huddled dress.

MOB

,
Verb.
T.
To attack in a disorderly crowd; to harass tumultuously.
1.
To wrap up in a cowl or vail.