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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 4

Part of speech: noun (n.)

A mobcap. Goldsmith.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 4

Part of speech: noun (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.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 3 of 4

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To wrap up in, or cover with, a cowl. [R.]

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 4 of 4

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To crowd about, as a mob, and attack or annoy; as, to mob a house or a person.

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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