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A mobcap. Goldsmith.

Like a mob; tumultuous; lawless; as, a mobbish act. Bp. Kent.

A plain cap or headdress for women or girls; especially, one tying under the chin by a very broad band, generally of the same material as the cap itself. Thackeray.

Capable of being moved; not fixed in place or condition; movable. "Fixed or else mobile." Skelton.

The quality or state of being mobile; as, the mobility of a liquid, of an army, of the populace, of features, of a muscle. Sir T. Browne.

The act of mobilizing.

To put in a state of readiness for active service in war, as an army corps.

To wrap the head of in a hood. [Obs.] Shak.

See Moebles. [Obs.]

Dr. Stevens has given to our present situation (for one can not call it a government), a mobocracy. Walpole.

One who favors a form of government in which the unintelligent populace rules without restraint. Bayne.

Of, or relating to, a mobocracy.

An automobile vehicle or mechanism; esp., a self-propelled vehicle suitable for use on a street or roadway. Automobiles are usually propelled by internal combustion engines (using volatile inflammable liquids, as gasoline or petrol, alcohol, naphtha, etc.), steam engines, or electric motors. The power of the driving mo…

The use of automobiles, or the practices, methods, or the like, of those who use them. -- Au`to*mo"bil*ist, n.

An embryonic cell which develops into a pigment cell.

A joint stock company, formed for general banking business, or for the construction of public works, by means of loans on personal estate, after the manner of the crédit foncier on real estate. In practice, however, this distinction has not been strictly observed.

The disorganization or disarming of troops which have previously been mobilized or called into active service; the change from a war footing to a peace footing.

To disorganize, or disband and send home, as troops which have been mobilized.

A group of nudibranch mollusks without special gills.

Having the skin modified to serve as a gill.