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The philosophical system of Thomas Hobbes, an English materialist (

One who accepts the doctrines of Thomas Hobbes.

other insects, often larger than themselves, and suck their blood. Called also hawk fly, robber fly. -- To stir up a hornet's nest, to provoke the attack of a swarm of spiteful enemies or spirited critics. [Colloq.]

A huckster. Gladstone. Those hucksterers or money-jobbers. Swift.

dishonorable, or the deprivation of such good as is made honorable by the Common wealth. Hobbes.

A European composite herb (Centaurea nigra); -- so called from the resemblance of its knobbed head to an iron ball fixed on a long handle. Dr. Prior.

Same as Jobbernowl.

To carry on the business of a jobber in merchandise or stocks.

To grow into knobs or bunches; to become knobbed. [Obs.] Drant.

The hart in its second year; a young deer. [Written also knobber.] Halliwell. He has hallooed the hounds upon a velvet-headed knobbler. Sir W. Scott.

A short club with a knobbed end used as a missile weapon by Kafir and other native tribes of South Africa.

Drops of some drug put in one's drink to stupefy him for purpose of robbery, etc. [Slang, U. S.]

A robber; a pirate; hence, loosely, a rogue or rascal.

ans; the Liberal party. I confess I see nothing liberal in this " order of thoughts," as Hobbes elsewhere expresses it. Hazlitt.

A number of shares taken by a jobber.

One who engages in logrolling. [Political cant, U. S.] The jobbers and logrollers will all be against it. The. Nation.

A knobbed mallet used by curriers in dressing leather to make it supple.

nse (Law), an offense of a greater degree which contains a lesser offense, as murder and robbery include assault. -- Major premise (Logic), that premise of a syllogism which contains the major term. -- Major scale (Mus.), the natural diatonic scale, which has semitones between the third and fourth, and seventh and fo…

Shak. Then cried they all again, saying, Not this man, but Barabbas. Now, Barabbas was a robber. John xviii. 40. The other great and undoing mischief which befalls men is, by their being misrepresented. Now, by calling evil good, a man is misrepresented to others in the way of slander. South. Now and again, now and the…

A robber that infests the road on foot; a highwayman; -- usually called a footpad. Gay. Byron.