Defn: To surround with a moat. Dryden.
MOATE
Moate, v. i. Etym: [See Mute to molt.]
Defn: To void the excrement, as a bird; to mute. [Obs.]
MOB
Mob, n. Etym: [See Mobcap.]
Defn: A mobcap. Goldsmith.
MOB
Mob, v. t.
Defn: To wrap up in, or cover with, a cowl. [R.]
MOB
Mob, n. Etym: [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.
A cluster of mob were making themselves merry with their betters.
Addison.
2. Hence: A throgn; a rabble; esp., an unlawful or riotous assembly; a disorderly crowd. The mob of gentlemen who wrote with ease. Pope. Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob. Madison. Confused by brainless mobs. Tennyson. Mob law, law administered by the mob; lynch law. — Swell mob, well dressed thieves and swindlers, regarded collectively. [Slang] Dickens.