Mob, n. [L. mobile vulgus, the movable common people. See Mobile, n.]
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, v. 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.
Mob"bish (?), a. Like a mob; tumultuous; lawless; as, a mobbish act.
Bp. Kent.
Mob"cap` (?), n. [D. mop-muts; OD. mop a woman's coif + D. muts cap.] A
plain cap or headdress for women or girls; especially, one tying under
the chin by a very broad band, generally of the same material as the
cap itself. Thackeray.
Mo"bile (?), a. [L. mobilis, for movibilis, fr. movere to move: cf. F.
mobile. See Move.] 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 features.
5. (Physiol.) Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited; capable of
spontaneous movement.
Mo"bile (m"bl; L. mb"*l), n. [L. mobile vulgus. See Mobile, a., and cf.
3d Mob.] The mob; the populace. [Obs.] "The unthinking mobile." South.
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Mo*bil"i*ty (m*bl"*t), n. [L. mobilitas: cf. F. mobilité.] 1. The
quality or state of being mobile; as, the mobility of a liquid, of an
army, of the populace, of features, of a muscle. Sir T. Browne.