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mob (?), n. [See Mobcap.] A mobcap. Goldsmith.[1913 Webster]
| mob | (?), n. [See Mobcap.]
A mobcap. Goldsmith.
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| mob | , v. t.
To wrap up in, or cover with, a cowl. [R.]
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| 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.
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-A cluster of mob were making themselves merry with their betters. Addison.
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2. Hence:
A throng; a rabble; esp., an unlawful or riotous assembly; a disorderly crowd.
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-The mob of gentlemen who wrote with ease. Pope.
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-Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob. Madison.
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-Confused by brainless mobs. Tennyson.
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Mob law, law administered by the mob; lynch law. -- Swell mob, well dressed thieves and swindlers, regarded collectively. [Slang] Dickens.
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| 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.
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