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  5  definitions  found 
 
  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  1.6  [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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