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  1.                 From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
                    

    Mob \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. [1913 Webster]

    A cluster of mob were making themselves merry with their betters. --Addison. [1913 Webster]

    2. Hence: A throng; a rabble; esp., an unlawful or riotous assembly; a disorderly crowd. [1913 Webster]

    The mob of gentlemen who wrote with ease. --Pope. [1913 Webster]

    Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob. --Madison. [1913 Webster]

    Confused by brainless mobs. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]

    3. A criminal organization or organized criminal gangs, collectively; the Mafia; the syndicate; as, he was a lawyer for the mob. [PJC]

    Mob law, law administered by the mob; lynch law.

    Swell mob, well dressed thieves and swindlers, regarded collectively. [Slang] --Dickens. [1913 Webster]

  2.                 From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
                    

    Mob \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. [1913 Webster]

  3.                 From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
                    

    Mob \Mob\, n. [See Mobcap.] A mobcap. --Goldsmith. [1913 Webster]

  4.                 From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
                    

    Mob \Mob\, v. t. To wrap up in, or cover with, a cowl. [R.] [1913 Webster]