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Webster 1913 Edition
Mobile
1.
Capable of being moved; not fixed in place or condition; movable.
“Fixed or else mobile.” Skelton.
2.
Characterized by an extreme degree of fluidity; moving or flowing with great freedom;
as, benzine and mercury are
mobile
liquids; – opposed to viscous
, viscoidal
, or oily
.3.
Easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction; excitable; changeable; fickle.
Testament of Love.
The quick and
mobile
curiosity of her disposition. Hawthorne.
4.
Changing in appearance and expression under the influence of the mind;
as,
. mobile
features5.
(Physiol.)
Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited; capable of spontaneous movement.
Mo′bile
(mō′bēlˊ)
, Noun.
a form of sculpture having several sheets or rods of a stiff material attached to each other by thin wire or twine in a balanced and artfully arranged tree configuration, with the topmost member suspended in air from a support so that the parts may move independently when set in motion by a current of air.
Webster 1828 Edition
Mobile
MO'BILE
,Adj.
MO'BILE
,Noun.
Primum mobile, in the ancient astronomy, a ninth heaven or sphere, supposed to be beyond the fixed stars, and to be the first mover of all the lower spheres.