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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 mob /ˈmɑb/
 暴民,民眾,暴徒(vt.)大舉包圍,亂擠,圍攻(vi.)聚眾生事

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Mob n.  A mobcap.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Mob, 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 throng; 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.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 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.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 mob
      n 1: a disorderly crowd of people [syn: rabble, rout]
      2: a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized
         criminal activities [syn: syndicate, crime syndicate,
         family]
      3: an association of criminals; "police tried to break up the
         gang"; "a pack of thieves" [syn: gang, pack, ring]
      v : press tightly together or cram; "The crowd packed the
          auditorium" [syn: throng, pack, pile, jam]
      [also: mobbing, mobbed]