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.
A cluster of mob were making themselves merry with their betters.
Addison.
2.
Hence: A throgn; 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.
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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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