Mob \Mob\, n. [See Mobcap.]

A mobcap. --Goldsmith.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Mob \Mob\, v. t. To wrap up in, or cover with, a cowl. [R.]

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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.

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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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)