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One who slobbers.

Wet; sloppy, as land. Shak.

The quality of being snobbish; snobbishness.

culates in stocks for gain; one whose occupation is to buy and sell stocks. In England a jobber acts as an intermediary between brokers.

See Swabber.

An absolver. [R.] Hobbes.

Visibly. [Obs.] Hobbes.

A genus of large and voracious two-winged flies, including the bee killer and robber fly.

ged fly of the family Asilidæ (esp. Trupanea apivora) which feeds upon the honeybee. See Robber fly. -- Bee louse (Zoöl.), a minute, wingless, dipterous insect (Braula cæca) parasitic on hive bees. -- Bee martin (Zoöl.), the kingbird (Tyrannus Carolinensis) which occasionally feeds on bees. -- Bee moth (Zoöl.), a mo…

To besprinkle or scatter over with, or as with, flowers. Hobbes.

To beslobber.

To defile with slaver; to beslobber.

To beslobber.

y paid, in the north of England and south of Scotland, to certain men who were allied to robbers, or moss troopers, to be by them protected from pillage. Sir W. Scott.

To cause to move in a short, jerking manner; to move (a thing) with a bob. "He bobbed his head." W. Irving.

That which is seized by violence or obtained by robbery, especially collective spoil taken in war; plunder; pillage. Milton. To play booty, to play dishonestly, with an intent to lose; to allow one's adversary to win at cards at first, in order to induce him to continue playing and victimize him afterwards. [Obs.] L'Es…

To commit robbery or theft. [Obs.]

Robbery; extortion. [Obs.]

A lawless fellow who lives by plunder; one of a band of robbers; especially, one of a gang living in mountain retreats; a highwayman; a freebooter. Giving them not a little the air of brigands or banditti. Jeffery.

Life and practice of brigands; highway robbery; plunder.