mobl (mob)

[ Went in our mobs to the dumb man [Duncan Campbell], according to appointment. Add is on, Spectator, No. 323. Some pretty young ladies in mobs popped in here and there. Steele, Guardian, No. 65. mobl (mob), v. t.; pret. and pp. mobbed , ppr. mobbing . [ Having most of them chins as smooth as women's, and their faces mob'd in hoods and long coats like petticoats. Dr. H. More, Epistles to the Seven Churches, Pref. to ii. I have known her for two months take po e ion of our Goldsmith, To the Printer. Rippling waters made a pleasant moan . 3t. Lament; lamentation; complaint: espeeasy chair, mobbed up in flannel night-caps. cially in the phrase to make one's moan. At-after dinner gonne they to daunce, And synge also, save Dorigene alone, Which made alway hire compleint and hire mone. Chaucer , Franklin's Tale, 1. 192. They make their moan that they can get no money. Latimer , 2d Sermon bef. Edw. VI., 1550. Oh, here's my friend! I'll make my moan to him. Beau . and Fl ., Wit at Several Weapons, iii. 1. moan2 (mō'an), a . [ moa + -an .] Moa-like; of or pertaining to a moa. moanfult (mon'fül), a. ful ; moan1 + -ful .] At last, in moanful march, shepherds. IMG:content-0795.png:[blocks in formation]