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   Mob (?), n. [See Mobcap.] A mobcap.  Goldsmith.
   
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   Mob, v. t. To wrap up in, or cover with, a cowl. [R.]
   
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   Mob, n. [L. mobile vulgus, the movable common people. See Mobile, n.]
   1. The lower classes of a community; the populace, or the lowest part of it.
   
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   A cluster of mob were making themselves merry with their betters. Addison.
   
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   2. Hence: A throng; a rabble; esp., an unlawful or riotous assembly; a disorderly crowd.
   
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   The mob of gentlemen who wrote with ease. Pope.
   
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   Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob. Madison.
   
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   Confused by brainless mobs. Tennyson.
   
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   3. A criminal organization or organized criminal gangs, collectively; the Mafia; the syndicate; as, “he was a lawyer for the mob”.
   
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   Mob law, law administered by the mob; lynch law. -- Swell mob, well dressed thieves and swindlers, regarded collectively. [Slang] Dickens.
   
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   Mob, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mobbed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Mobbing.] To crowd about, as a mob, and attack or annoy; as, “to mob a house or a person”.
   
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