ATDDTA (6) 180-182.10

[Jasper Fidget]

mobility
The mob: a sort of opposite to nobility.
Definition taken from /The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue/, 
originally by Francis Grose.

http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Grose-VulgarTongue/m/mobility.html

OED should have a better entry -- now where did I put that thing?

Tore Rye Andersen wrote:
> bekah:
>
>> 182:9 "Little by little the place filled up and turned into a hoedown 
>> of sorts, and the Kid, or >whoever he was, sort of faded into the 
>> mobility, and Lew didn't see him again for awhile."
>>
>> ** faded into the mobility "Mobility" also appears in Mason & Dixon.
>
> - and not only does it appear, it appears at a very significant 
> juncture - more specifically, the beginning of the final chapter, when 
> the children are safely tucked into the beds, and all the preterite 
> waste of Philadelphia begins to percolate through the house:
>
> [...]
>
>