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mobile
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Mobile \Mo"bile\, a. [L. mobilis, for movibilis, fr. movere to move: cf. F. mobile. See Move.] 1. Capable of being moved; not fixed in place or condition; movable. "Fixed or else mobile." --Skelton. [1913 Webster] 2. Characterized by an extreme degree of fluidity; moving or flowing with great freedom; as, benzine and mercury are mobile liquids; -- opposed to viscous, viscoidal, or oily. [1913 Webster] 3. Easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction; excitable; changeable; fickle. --Testament of Love. [1913 Webster] The quick and mobile curiosity of her disposition. --Hawthorne. [1913 Webster] 4. Changing in appearance and expression under the influence of the mind; as, mobile features. [1913 Webster] 5. (Physiol.) Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited; capable of spontaneous movement. [1913 Webster] 6. Capable of moving readily, or moving frequenty from place to place; as, a mobile work force. [PJC] 7. Having motor vehicles to permit movement from place to place; as, a mobile library; a mobile hospital. [PJC] .
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Mobile \Mo"bile\ (m[=o]"b[i^]l; L. m[o^]b"[i^]*l[=e]), n. [L. mobile vulgus. See Mobile, a., and cf. 3d Mob.] The mob; the populace. [Obs.] "The unthinking mobile." --South. [1913 Webster] .
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Mobile \Mo"bile\ (m[=o]"b[=e]l`), n. a form of sculpture having several sheets or rods of a stiff material attached to each other by thin wire or twine in a balanced and artfully arranged tree configuration, with the topmost member suspended in air from a support so that the parts may move independently when set in motion by a current of air. [1913 Webster]
