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Webster 1913 Edition
Mob
Mob
,Verb.
T.
To wrap up in, or cover with, a cowl.
[R.]
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 personWebster 1828 Edition
Mob
MOB
,Noun.
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.
1.
To wrap up in a cowl or vail.