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

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

‖ [ 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 ]