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The quality or state of being movable; mobility; susceptibility of motion.

A spermatocyte or spermoblast.

A nitro derivative of methane obtained as a mobile liquid; -- called also nitrocarbol.

A form of government by the multitude; a mobocracy. Hare.

Of or pertaining to ochlocracy; having the form or character of an ochlocracy; mobocratic. -- Och`lo*crat"ic*al*ly, adv.

A colorless mobile liquid of a pleasant aromatic odor obtained by the distillation of olibanum, or frankincense, and regarded as a terpene; -- called also conimene.

A bursting forth; eruption; insurrection. "Mobs and outbreaks." J. H. Newman. The flash and outbreak of a fiery mind. Shak.

A comprehensive division of fishes which includes the elasmobranchs and ganoids. [Written also Palæichthyes.]

yridine, and obtained from bone oil, acrolein ammonia, and coal-tar naphtha, as colorless mobile liquids of strong odor; -- called also methyl pyridine.

The class of Vertebrata that includes the fishes. The principal divisions are Elasmobranchii, Ganoidei, and Teleostei.

A group of fishes including the sharks and rays; the Elasmobranchii; -- called also Placoidei.

A naked mobile mass of protoplasm, formed by the union of several amoebalike young, and constituting one of the stages in the life cycle of Mycetozoa and other low organisms.

The common people; the mob. [Obs.] The plebe with thirst and fury prest. Sylvester.

A specially modified part of the ventral fin in male elasmobranchs, which serves as a copulatory organ, or clasper.

A tumultuous crowd of vulgar, noisy people; a mob; a confused, disorderly throng.

The sweepings of society; the rabble; the mob; -- chiefly used in the compound or duplicate, riffraff.

The order of elasmobranch fishes which includes the sawfishes, skates, and rays; -- called also Rajæ, and Rajii.

Any one of numerous elasmobranch fishes of the order Raiæ, including the skates, torpedoes, sawfishes, etc.

Immobility, or the fixed, permanent nature of real property; as, chattels which savor of the realty; -- so written in legal language for reality.

A rabble; a riotous assembly; a mob. [Obs.]