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See Obi.

To slobber on; to smear with spittle running from the mouth. Also Fig.: as, to beslobber with praise.

A bubble; blubber. [Low] T. Carew. Blobber lip, a thick, protruding lip. His blobber lips and beetle brows commend. Dryden.

Having thick lips. "A blobber-lipped shell." Grew.

One who, or that which, bobs.

A squabble; a tumult; a noisy disturbance; as, to raise a bobbery. [Low] Halliwell.

See Dabchick.

A mouthful; a lump; a small piece. Spenser. [He] had broken the stocks to small gobbets. Wyclif.

In pieces. [Obs.] Huloet.

A dealer in the public stocks or funds; a stockjobber. [Eng.]

A blockhead. [Colloq. & Obs.] H. Taylor.

Underhand management; official corruption; as, municipal jobbery. Mayhew.

A long outer garment worn by both sexes of Mohammedans of the better class.

See Illust of Antenna. The horns of a roe deer of Greenland are pointed at the top, and knobbed or tuberous at the bottom. Grew.

See Knobbler.

The nuthatch. [Prov. Eng.]

s or money from the person of another by violence or by putting him in fear. Some roving robber calling to his fellows. Milton.

The act or practice of robbing; theft. Thieves for their robbery have authority When judges steal themselves. Shak.

A pirate; a sea rover.

See Slabber.