Mob, v. t. To wrap up in, or cover
with, a cowl. [R.]
Mob (?), n. [See Mobcap.] A
mobcap. Goldsmith.
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.
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.