Hypertext Webster Gateway: "mob"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Mob \Mob\, n. [See {Mobcap}.]
A mobcap. --Goldsmith.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Mob \Mob\, v. t.
To wrap up in, or cover with, a cowl. [R.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Mob \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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Mob \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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
mob
adj : characteristic of a mob; disorderly or lawless; "mob rule";
"fanned mounting tension into mobbish terrorizing";
"moblike mentality" [syn: {mobbish}, {moblike}]
n 1: a disorderly crowd of people [syn: {rabble}, {rout}]
2: a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized
criminal activities [syn: {syndicate}]
3: an association of criminals; "police tried to break up the
gang"; "a pack of thieves" [syn: {gang}, {pack}, {ring}]
v : press tightly together or cram; "The crowd packed the
auditorium" [syn: {throng}, {pack}, {pile}, {jam}]
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