mobilianer (mobilianer)

[ habits the Gulf States from western Florida to Texas, and is frequently sold in the markets of Mobile and other cities. mobilisation, mobilise. See mobilization, mo bilize. Thou mortall Tyme, every man can tell, Art nothyng els but the mobiltie Of sonne and mone chaungyng in every degre! Sir T. More , Int. to Utopia (ed. Dibdin), p. lxix. 3 (mob-il'i-ti). The populace; the mob: a use suggested by nobility . [Slang.] She singled you out with her eye as commander-in-chief of the mobility . Dryden, Don Sebastian, iv. 1. During which the Door is kept by a Couple of Brawny Beadles, to keep out the Mobility . Quoted in Ashton's Social Life in Reign of Queen Anne, (II. 111. mobilization (mō"bior mob"i-li-zā'shon), n. [ mobilisation (= Sp. movilizacion = Pg. mobilisação = It. mobilizzazione ), mobiliser , mobilize: see mobilize .] Milit ., the act of mobilizing or putting in readine for service; the act of putting a body of troops on a war footing: as, the mobilization of an army or a corps by mustering its members and organizing, equipping, and supplying it for active operations. Also spelled mobilisation . The full strength is made up at the moment of war by what is called mobilisation -that is, the drawing to the units (such as battalions, or batteries, or regiments of cavalry].. reserve men sufficient to complete them. Fortnightly Rev., N. S., XLIII. 12. IMG:content-0797.png:[blocks in formation] The American demagogue is the courtier of American mobocracy . The Century, XXXI. 54. mobocrat (mob'ō-krat), n. [Irreg. mob2 + -o - crat as in democrat , aristocrat , etc.] One of the mobocracy or turbulent mob; a leader of the mob; a demagogue. The idiotic notion, po ibly entertained by a brainle mobocrat here and there, that if you only perfect your voting apparatus you are absolutely certain of good gov ernment. P. Bayne . These mobocrats intended to be Cromwells. W. Phillips , Speeches, p. 332. mobocratic (mob-ō-krat'ik), a. [ mobocrat + -ic.] Of or relating to mobocracy. mobsman (mobz'man), n .; pl. mobsmen (-men). [ mob's , po . of mob2 , + man .] A member of the swell-mob; a dre y thief or swindler who affects the airs of a gentleman: generally, swell- mobsman . [Slang.] She once went to a concert, and got acquainted with a mobsman , who accompanied her home. Mayhew. mob-story (mob'stō"ri), n. A vulgar story or tale. Add is on .