Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Movable; having motion.
  • noun Movable goods; personal property.
  • To wrap up (the head) in or as in a hood; mob.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb obsolete To wrap the head of in a hood.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb to muffle or wrap someone's head or face (normally with up)

Etymologies

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Frequentative form of mob.

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  • to wrap a head in a hood

    March 12, 2009

  • (verb) - To dress grossly or inelegantly. Sometimes written mable, perhaps by a ludicrous allusion to the French je m'habille I get dressed.

    --Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language, 1755

    January 19, 2018