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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Rabble \Rab"ble\, adjective Of or pertaining to a rabble; like, or suited to, a rabble; disorderly; vulgar. [R.] --Dryden.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Rabble \Rab"ble\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Rabbled} (r[a^]b"b'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. {Rabbling} (r[a^]b"bl[i^]ng).]
1. To insult, or assault, by a mob; to mob; as, to rabble a curate. --Macaulay.
The bishops' carriages were stopped and the prelates themselves rabbled on their way to the house. --J. R. Green.
2. To utter glibly and incoherently; to mouth without intelligence. [Obs. or Scot.] --Foxe.
3. To rumple; to crumple. [Scot.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Rabble \Rab"ble\ (r[a^]b"b'l), noun [Etymol. uncertain.] (Iron Manuf.) An iron bar, with the end bent, used in stirring or skimming molten iron in the process of puddling.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Rabble \Rab"ble\, verb (used with an object) To stir or skim with a rabble, as molten iron.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Rabble \Rab"ble\, verb (used without an object) [Akin to D. rabbelen, Prov. G. rabbeln, to prattle, to chatter: cf. L. rabula a brawling advocate, a pettifogger, fr. rabere to rave. Cf. {Rage}.] To speak in a confused manner. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Rabble \Rab"ble\, noun [Probably named from the noise made by it (see {Rabble}, verb (used without an object)) cf. D. rapalje rabble, OF. & Prov. F. rapaille.]
1. A tumultuous crowd of vulgar, noisy people; a mob; a confused, disorderly throng.
I saw, I say, come out of London, even unto the presence of the prince, a great rabble of mean and light persons. --Ascham.
Jupiter, Mercury, Bacchus, Venus, Mars, and the whole rabble of licentious deities. --Bp. Warburton.
2. A confused, incoherent discourse; a medley of voices; a chatter.
{The rabble}, the lowest class of people, without reference to an assembly; the dregs of the people. ''The rabble call him 'lord.''' --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
rabble
noun
1: a disorderly crowd of people [syn: {mob}, {rout}]
2: disparaging terms for the common people [syn: {riffraff}, {ragtag}, {ragtag and bobtail}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
60 Moby Thesaurus words for "rabble": and bobtail, army, bourgeoisie, canaille, cluster, cohue, common ruck, commonalty, commoners, crowd, crush, deluge, dregs, dregs of society, flock, flood, galaxy, gang, heap, hoi polloi, horde, host, jam, legion, lower classes, many, mass, masses, mob, mod, multitude, other half, outcasts, panoply, peasantry, people, polloi, populace, press, proletariat, public, rabblement, raff, rag, ragtag, ragtag and bobtail, rank and file, riffraff, rout, ruck, scum, scurf, spate, swarm, tag, the great unwashed, throng, trash, unwashed, vermin
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
RABBLE, noun In a republic, those who exercise a supreme authority tempered by fraudulent elections. The rabble is like the sacred Simurgh, of Arabian fable -- omnipotent on condition that it do nothing. (The word is Aristocratese, and has no exact equivalent in our tongue, but means, as nearly as may be, "soaring swine.")
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