mobbish 
mobbish (moh'isli), it. [< miili- + -iWil.] Of 
or pi'i'tuinini; to orclianirti'Hstie of ft mob; re- 
sembling ii mob; Iniiiiilliious; vulgar. 
A mall city guard, to prevent <noblii*/i disorders. 
Ili'itif, Kssays, ii. 11. 
Mr, Fox treated the associations for (inim-mting these 
libels as tending to prevent the Improvement of thr hu 
mail miml, and as a mnbbiith tyranii>. 
Bvrltt, Condition o( the Minority (1708). 
mobblet, '' ' ^ ( '<> "'</<-. 
mobby (mob'i), n. [Also mabby (and mobee); 
supposed to be of negro (W. Ind.) origin.] If. 
An obsolete variant of mubbii. 2. The liquid 
or juice expressed from apples or peaches, for 
distillation in the manufacture of apple- or 
peach-brandy. 3t. The liquor made from such 
juice, a kind of rum. See mobee. 
Their strong drink is Madeira wine, elder, uuMiy punch, 
made either uf ruin from the Carilibee Islands, or brandy 
distilled frum their apples and peaches. 
Beverleu, Virginia, Iv. Ii 74. 
mob-capt (raob'kap), n. [< mob 1 + eajA.] A 
cap with a bag-shaped or puffy crown and a 
broad bund and frills. 
A mull fiifi : I mean a cnp, much more 
common then than now, with side-pieces, 
fastening under the chin. 
Didreru, David Copperfleld, xiil. 
Her milk-white linen mob-cap fringed 
round and softened her face. 
Mrs. UaxktU, Sylvia's Lovers, xv. 
mobee (mo'be), . [Cf. mobby.] 
A fermented liquor made by the 
negroes of the West Indies from 
sugar, ginger, and snakeroot. 
mobile 1 (mo'bil ormob'il), a. and 
n. [Early mod. E. mobil; < ME. 
mobil (mixed with moble, meble, < OF. moble), < 
OF. mobile, F. mobile = Sp. movil = Pg. mobil = 
It. mobile, < L. mobilis, for "movibilis, movable, 
< moverc, move: see more.'} I. a. If. Change- 
able; fickle. 
In distraction of mobil people. Testament of Love, 1. 
2. Capable of being moved from place to place. 
The nynde commandement cs Thou sail noghte couayte 
the hous or other thynge mobiU or \n-nutbiU of thi negnt- 
bour. Hampole, Prose Treatises (E. E. T. 8.), p. 11. 
3f. Moving; in motion; not stationary. 
To treate of any star 
Kyxt or els mobil. 
Skelton, Why Come ye not to Court? (Latham.) 
4. Movable ; easily moving or movable ; capa- 
ble of facile movement; hence, changing; 
quickly responding to emotion or impulse. 
In all these examples, and especially in the Ephesian 
heads, the eye appears rather as if seen through a slit In 
the skin than as if set within the guard of highly sensi- 
tive and mobile lids. 
C. T. X'euton, Art anil Archied!., p. 78. 
Mademoiselle Virginia . . . raised her mobile French 
eyebrows in sprightly astonishment. 
W. Calling, Yellow Mask. 
This accounts for the viscosity of all, even of the most 
mobile liquids. A. Daniell, Prin. of Physics, p. 226. 
II. n. 1. That which is movable. 
There can he no direction, distance, dimension, unless 
a mobile moves in that direction, and a sensation appre- 
ciates it. <;./l. Lewt, Probs. of Life and Mind, II. Iv. 45. 
2. A moving principle ; a mover. 
Thou first Habile 
Which mak'st all wheel 
In circle round. Hum II, Letters, I. v. 11. 
mobile 2 ! (mob'i-le), . [Short for L. mobile vul- 
aus, the fickle crowd: mobile, neut. of mobilis, 
mobile, inconstant, fickle ; vulgus, the common 
people : see vulgar. Hence later mofc 2 .] The 
populace ; the rabble ; the mob. 
Eliciting the mobile, headed by Tomaso Audio, common- 
ly called Vlasaniello. Wood, Athena; Oxon., II. 384. 
Like a bawd in her old velvet petticoat, resigned Into 
the secular hands of the mobile. Swift, Tale of Tub, vi. 
The word mobile [mobile vulgns] was first introduced 
Into our language about this time (1680-90 J, and was soon 
abbreviated into mob. T. Brown, In 1690, uses both the 
Latin word at length and the abbreviation ; and in the 
lYefacc to "Oleomenes," two years afterwards, our author 
uses mob with a kind of apology "as they call it." 
Miilonc, Note on Dryden's Don Sebastian, Pref. 
Mobilian (mo-bil'i-an), a. and >i. [< Mobile (see 
del'.) + -i/ni.] I. it. Pertaining to Mobile, the 
principal city of the State of Alabama. 
II. ii. An inhabitant of Mobile. 
mobilianer (nm-bil'i-an-er), . [< Mobile (see 
def.) + -inii + -o-l.]" A fresh-water tortoise, 
rsi'iiiteuiyx ninliiliciinis, of the family Clemniyida; 
the largest of this family in the United States. 
The shell is often 14 or 16 Inches long. This tortoise In- 
habits the (Inlf States from western florid* to Texas, anil 
is frequently sold in the markets of Mobile and other cities. 
mobilisation, mobilise. SOP mobilization, mo- 
btiiee. 
BSOB 
mobility (nio-bil'j-ti), . [< K. /////< = sp, 
iiinriliiliiil = I'g. iiinliiliiliiili- = It. mnhililii. < \.. 
iiu>bililii(l-)x. iniiliility, < iiinliilix, mobile: see 
imiliili*. .] 1. The property of bring mobile 
or easily movable; Misci-ptibility of motion or 
movement; readiness to move or change in 
response to impulse or slight force; hence, 
changeable-ness : as, mobility of features. 
That extreme mobility which lielongs only to the fluid 
state. Henchel, Outline* of Astronomy, 1 880. 
Perfect iniMlilii, the perfect absence of viscosity, is an 
Ideal attribute not poueMed by any actual fluid. 
A. Daniell, Prin. of Phyalca, p. 900. 
2f. Movement; motion. 
Thou mortall Tyme, every man can till. 
Art nothyng els but the mobiltir 
Of sonne and mone chaungyng In every decre! 
>'.'/ T. More, Int. to Utopia (ed. Dlbdin), p. Ixix. 
3 (mob-il'i-ti). The populace; the mob: a use 
suggested by nobility. [Slang.] 
She singled yon out with her eye as conimander-in-chiff 
of the mobility. Vryden, Don Sebastian, IT. I. 
During which the Door Is kept by a Couple of Brawny 
Beadles, to keep out the Mobility. 
Quoted In AMon'f Social Life In Reign of Queen Anne, 
in. in. 
mobilization (mo'bi- or mob'i-li-za'shon), . 
[< F. mobilindtioii (= Sp. mnrilizarion "= Pg. 
iitobiliinii-flo = It. mobilizztizione), < mobilize!; 
mobilize: see mobilize.'} Milit., the act of mo- 
bilizing or putting in readiness for service; 
the act of putting a body of troops on a war 
footing: as, the mobilisation of an army or a 
corps by mustering its members and organiz- 
ing, equipping, and supplying it for active op- 
erations. Also spelled mobilisation. 
The full strength is made up at the moment of war by 
what Is called mobUimlivn that is, the drawing to the 
units [such as battalions, or batteries, or regiments of cav- 
alry] . , . reserve men sufficient to complete them. 
Fortnightly Rev., N. 8., XLIII. Ii 
mobilize (mo'bi-llz or mob'i-liz), r. ; pret. and 
pp. mobilized, ppr. mobilizing. [< F. mobilixer 
(= Pg. mobilisar), liberate, make movable or 
ready, < mobile, movable: see mobile*.] I. 
Iran*. To put in motion or in readiness for mo- 
tion. Specifically (a) Milit.. to prepare (an army or 
army-corps, etc.) for active service. See mobilization. 
In rude societies . . . the army is the mobilized com- 
munity, and the community is the army at rest. 
a. Spencer, Prin. of Soclol., 515. 
(!>) In naval affairs, more rarely, to make corresponding 
preparation of a fleet or squadron for active service on a 
war footing. 
While the great mobilized fleet was at Splthead. 
Elect. Rev. (Eng.X XXV. 281. 
II. intrans. Milit., to prepare for motion or 
action; make ready for active operations, or 
for taking the field. 
. The Oermans were mobilizing like clock-work: the 
French were trying to mobilize, and finding that the at- 
tempt produced chaos. 
Arch. Forbes, Souvenirs of some Continents, p. .V). 
Also spelled mobiline. 
mob-law (mob'la), n. The rule of the mob or 
the disorderly classes; violent usurpation of 
authority by the rabble ; lynch-law. 
moble 1 t (mo'bl), a. and n. [ME., also moeble, 
meeble, meble ; < OF. moble, meuble, movable, pi. 
mobles, meubles, movable property, furniture, 
etc., < L. mobilis, moving, movable: see mo- 
bile 1 .'] I. a. Movable; having motion. 
Alle the slgnes, be they moist or drie, or moeble or fix. 
Chaucer, Astrolabe, L } 21. 
II. H. Movable goods ; personal property. 
Of my moble thou dtspone, 
Right at the semeth best is for to done. 
Chaucer, Troilus. v. 300. 
Moeblet and vnmoebles and al that thow myjte fynde, 
Brenne it, here it nouste awey be It neuere so riche. 
fieri Plowman (B\ ill. 267. 
Ryght so men reuerenceth more the ryehe for hus mucbe 
meeble 
Than for the kyn that he cam of other for hus kynde wlttes. 
Pien Pbnrman (C\ IT. 182. 
moble-t, mobblet (mob'l), r. t. [Freq. of mob*.] 
To wrap up (the head) in or as in a hood ; mob. 
But who, O. who had seen the mobled queen . . . 
Run barefoot up and down. Shot., Hamlet, II. 2. 524. 
Their heads and faces are moblrd in fine linen, that no 
more is seen of them than their eyes. Saiult/t, Travels. 
mob-master (mob'mas'ter), H. A demagogue. 
Ituries. 
A sort of military disposition of mob-matter*. 
Roger Xwrth, Examen, p. 571. 
mobocracy (mob-ok'ra-si). H. ; pi. mobocraeieg 
(-si/.), [frreg. < E. moW + -o-craey as in de- 
Hioi-rtiry. arixtorniri/. etc.] 1. Government by 
the mob or populace; ochlocracy; governing 
moccasin 
power exercised or controlled by the disorderly 
Ciiiiip:iri' 
It Is a good name that a Dr. .Stevens lias given to our 
preMnt situation ifur one cannot call It a UovernnuntjL a 
Mubocncy. Walpolt, To Mann, 111 : , ). (Itaria.) 
A tnnbocroen, however, Is always usurped by the worst 
men. K Ana, Works, II. ill. 
2. The mob; the populace; the common crowd ; 
the uneducated or lawless class in a commu- 
nity. 
The American demagogue is the courtier of American 
mobocracy. The Centum, XXXI. 64. 
rnobocrat (nmb'o-krsit), . (Irreg. < mob'* + 
-o-cn:l as in i/r;mn//, iirintiH'rut, etc.] One of 
the mobocracy or turbulent mob: a leader of 
the mob; ademiigogue. 
The idiotic notion, poulbly entertained by a bralnleM 
mobocrat here and there, that If yon only perfect your 
voting apparatus you are absolutely certain of good gov- 
ernment. /'. Bayne. 
Theite mubocratt intended to be Cromwell*. 
W. PhOUpt, Speeches, p. S32. 
mobocratic (mob-o-krat'ik), . [< mobocrat + 
-if.] Of or relating to mobocracy. 
mobsman (mobz'inan), . : ]>l. iiiobumeii (-men). 
[< mob'H, poss. of mob', + man.] A member of 
the swell-mob; a dressy thief or swindler who 
affects the airs of a gentleman : generally. 
stcell-mobmtan. [Slang.] 
Abe once went to a concert, and got acquainted with a 
HinlaiMiiiii, who accompanied her home. Mayhev, 
mob-story (mob'sto'ri), . A vulgar story or 
tale. AadiHoti. 
moccadot, mockadot (mok'a-do), n. [Also mo- 
rhado, mockadoe, morkadoo; cf. OF. moitcade, 
also moeayart, moccado (Cotgrave), < Olt. mo- 
eaiaro, moeeaiorro, moccado (Florio); perhaps 
so called as used for handkerchiefs: see moc- 
eadur, muekender.] 1. A stuff in use in the six- 
teenth and seventeenth centuries, it is men- 
tioned as being made of wool and of silk, and apparently of 
a mixture of either with flax, and was a substitute for the 
more expensive velvet It was probably a material sim- 
ilar to velveteen, and of many grades of fineness and 
beauty. 
Who would not think it a ridiculous thing to see a Lady 
in her milke-hoiise with a veluet gowne, and at a bridal! 
in her cassock of mnckado ' 
I'litti-nliiiiii. Arte of Eng. Poesle, p. 338. 
2. Sham; mockery. 
Neither of them would sit, nor put their hats on : what 
mockado Is this to such a poor soul as I ! 
Richardion, Pamela, II. 87. (Davift.'i 
moccadort, . [Also mockador, mockndour, 
muckador, etc., and hence muckender, q. v.; < 
ME. mokadour = F. mouchoir. a handkerchief, 
= It. moccatore, moceadore, a snuffer, < ML. as if 
"mueatoriuni, < miicare, wipe the nose, < MIHI'HX. 
mticetix, mucus: see mucus.] A handkerchief. 
For eyen and nose the nedethe a molcadour 
Or sndary. Lydgate, Advice to an Old Gentleman, xi. 
moccasin 1 (mok'a-sin or -MI). . [Also moc- 
caxon, moecas- 
sin, niocasneii, < 
Algonkiu mair- 
cahitun, makku- 
#in, maknsin ; a 
shoe(seedef.).] 
A shoe or cov- 
er for the feet. 
made of deer- 
skin or other 
soft leather, 
without a stiff sole, and usually ornamented on 
the upper side : the shoe customarily worn by 
the American Indiana. 
All the footsteps had the print* of moceaaiu. 
J. f. Cooper, Last of Mohicans, xii. 
Moccasin embroidery. Same ia grau-embroitlery. 
moccasin' 2 (mok a-sin or -sn), n. [Also mocca- 
non, mocnaniH (f); appar. short for mofciixiu- 
.tuake, which is then < wiomwiw 1 + snake; but 
the reference to moccasin* is not explained.] 
A venomous serpent of the United States, (a) 
Anrittrodon (or Tnztcophu or Trignnoeephaltu) pilcironif, 
a somewhat aquatic snake of the southern I'nlted States, 
resembling the copperhead, Ancutrodon mntortrix, specif- 
ically called irater-moctarin, nometlnies water-riper. See 
cut on following page, (b) The same or a very similar 
snake found on dry, land, the so-called hv.rh-kind moceoMn, 
A. atrofwvtu, known in the southern I'nited states as the 
cottottinmittt, and much dreaded. Moccasins are mtlier 
small snakes, commonly about two feet long, dark olive- 
brown above and yellowish-brown below, with blackish 
bars and blotches. They are much darker in color than the 
copperhead, lacking the bright bronzy tints of the latter, 
and there Is a whitish or light streak along the lip: they 
also have the scales In K Instead of 23 rows, and no loral 
plate. The top of the head Is mostly covered with scales 
like those of the back, Instead of large regular plate* a* In 
Innocuous serpents; it is flat and broad, and shows the pit 
between the eye* and note a* in all the Crotalida or pit 
vtpera, 
