n. [ F. ] a self-propelled vehicle used for transporting passengers, suitable for use on a street or roadway. Many diferent models of automobiles have beenbuilt and sold commercially, possessing varied features such as a retractable roof (in a convertible), different braking systems, different propulsion systems, and varied styling. Most models have four wheels but some have been built with three wheels. Automobiles are usually propelled by internal combustion engines (using volatile inflammable liquids, as gasoline or petrol, alcohol, naphtha, etc.), and sometimes by steam engines, or electric motors. The power of the driving motor varies from under 50 H. P. for earlier models to over 200 H. P. larger models or high-performance sports or racing cars. An automobile is commonly called a car or an auto, and generally in British usage, motor cars.
Syn. -- car, auto, machine, motorcar. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

v. i. 1. to travel in an automobile.
Syn. -- motor. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The use of automobiles, or the practices, methods, or the like, of those who use them. -- Au`to*mo*bil"ist, n. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

n. a motor vehicle equipped to collect blood donations. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖ [ F. crédit credit & mobilier personal, pertaining to personal property. ] A joint stock company, formed for general banking business, or for the construction of public works, by means of loans on personal estate, after the manner of the crédit foncier on real estate. In practice, however, this distinction has not been strictly observed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. démobilisation. See Mobilization. ] (Mil.) The disorganization or disarming of troops which have previously been mobilized or called into active service; the change from a war footing to a peace footing. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Cf. F. démobiliser. ] (Mil.) To disorganize, or disband and send home, as troops which have been mobilized. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. immobilis: cf. F. immobile. See Immobility. ] Incapable of being moved; immovable; fixed; stable. Prof. Shedd. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. immobilitas, fr. immobilis immovable; pref. im- not + mobilis movable: cf. F. immobilité. See Mobile. ] The condition or quality of being immobile; fixedness in place or state. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act or process of limiting movement or making incapable of movement; as, immobilization of the injured knee was necessary; the storm caused complete immobilization of the rescue team.
Syn. -- immobilizing. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ Pref. im- in + mobilize; cf. f. immobiliser. ] To make immovable; in surgery, to make immovable (a naturally mobile part, as a joint) by the use of splints, or stiffened bandages. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Capacity of things to move among each other; as, the intermobility of fluid particles. [ 1913 Webster ]

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 ]

n. [ L. mobile vulgus. See Mobile, a., and cf. 3d Mob. ] The mob; the populace. [ Obs. ] “The unthinking mobile.” South. [ 1913 Webster ]

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 ]

n. Mobilization. [ Chiefly Brit. ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. Mobilize. [ Chiefly Brit. ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. mobilitas: cf. F. mobilité. ] 1. The quality or state of being mobile; as, the mobility of a liquid, of an army, of the populace, of features, of a muscle. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The mob; the lower classes. [ Humorous ] Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. mobilization. ] The act of mobilizing. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Mobilized p. pr. & vb. n. Mobilizing ] [ F. mobiliser. ] 1. To assemble and organize and make ready for use or action; as, to mobilize volunteers for the election campaign.
Syn. -- mobilise, marshal. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. Specifically: To put in a state of readiness for active service in war, as an army corps; as, to mobilize the National Guard.
Syn. -- mobilise, militarize, militarise. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ [ L., first cause of motion. ] (Astron.) In the Ptolemaic system, the outermost of the revolving concentric spheres constituting the universe, the motion of which was supposed to carry with it all the inclosed spheres with their planets in a daily revolution from east to west. See Crystalline heavens, under Crystalline. [ 1913 Webster ]

The motions of the greatest persons in a government ought to be, as the motions of the planets, under primum mobile. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]