mobility (mobiliti)

[F. mobilité = Sp. movilidad = Pg. mobilidade = It. mobilità, That extreme mobility which belongs only to the fluid state. Herschel, Outlines of Astronomy, § 386. Perfect mobility , the perfect absence of viscosity, is an ideal attribute not po e ed by any actual fluid. mobby (mob'i), n. [Also mabby (and mobee ); supposed to be of negro (W. Ind.) origin.] 11. An obsolete variant of mabby .-2. The liquid A. Daniell , Prin. of Physics, p. 200. or juice expre ed from apples or peaches, for 21. Movement; motion. distillation in the manufacture of apple or peach-brandy. -3+. The liquor made from such juice, a kind of rum. See mobee. Their strong drink is Madeira wine, cider, mobby punch, made either of rum from the Caribbee Islands, or brandy distilled from their apples and peaches. Beverley , Virginia, iv. 74. mob-capt (mob'kap), n. [ A mob - cap : I mean a cap, much more common then than now, with side-pieces, fastening under the chin. Dickens , David Copper field, xiii. Her milk-white linen mob - cap fringed round and softened her face. Mrs. Gaskell, Sylvia's Lovers, xv. mobee (mō'bē), n. [Cf. mobby .] A fermented liquor made by the negroes of the West Indies from sugar, ginger, and snakeroot. mobilel (mo'bil or mob'il), a . and n. [Early mod. E. mobil ; Mob-cap, 18th century. mobil (mixed with moble, meble, In dist ruction of mobil people. Testament of Love , i. 2. Capable of being moved from place to place. The nynde comm an dement es Thou sall noghte couayte the hous or other thynge mobill or in- mobill of thi neght Hampole, Prose Treatises (E. E. T. S.), p. 11. 3t. Moving; in motion; not stationary. bour. To treate of any star Fyxt or els mobil. Skelton, Why Come ye not to Court? ( Latham .) 4. Movable; easily moving or movable; capable of facile movement; hence, changing; quickly responding to emotion or impulse. In all these examples, and especially in the Ephesian heads, the eye appears rather as if seen through a slit in the skin than as if set within the guard of highly sensitive and mobile lids. C. T. Newton, Art and Archæol., p. 79. Mademoiselle Virginie... raised her mobile French eyebrows in sprightly astonishment. W. Collins, Yellow Mask. This accounts for the viscosity of all, even of the most mobile liquids. A. Daniell, Prin. of Physics, p. 226. II. n. 1. That which is movable. There can be no direction, distance, dimension, unle a mobile moves in that direction, and a sensation appre ciates it. G. H. Lewes, Probs. of Life and Mind, II. iv. § 45. 2. A moving principle; a mover. Thou first Mobile Which mak'st all wheel In circle round. Howell , Letters, I. v. 11. mobile2+ (mob'i-lē), n. [Short for L. mobile vul gus , the fickle crowd: mobile , neut. of mobilis , mobile, inconstant, fickle; vulgus , the common people: see vulgar . Hence later mob2 .] The populace; the rabble; the mob. Enciting the mobile , headed by Tomaso Anello, commonly called Masa niello. Wood, Athenæ Oxon., II. 384. Like a bawd in her old velvet petticoat, resigned into the secular hands of the mobile . Swift , Tale of a Tub, vi. The word mobile [mobile vulgus) was first introduced into our language about this time [1680-90], and was soon abbreviated into mob . T. Brown, in 1690, uses both the Latin word at length and the abbreviation; and in the Preface to "Cleomenes," two years afterwards, our author uses mob with a kind of apology - "as they call it." Malone , Note on Dryden's Don Sebastian, Pref. Mobilian (mō-bil'i-an), a . and n. [ Mobile (see def.) +-ian.] I. a . Pertaining to Mobile, the principal city of the State of Alabama. II. n. An inhabitant of Mobile.