n. [ Dan. lubbe. ] (Zool.) The European pollock. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of lobbing; specif., an (often gentle) stroke which sends a ball up into the air, as in tennis to avoid a player at the net. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Lobbed p. pr. & vb. n. Lobbing. ] 2. To let fall heavily or lazily. [ 1913 Webster ]

And their poor jades
Lob down their heads. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. to propel (relatively slowly) in a high arcing trajectory; as, to lob a grenade at the enemy. [ PJC ]

To lob a ball (Lawn Tennis), to strike a ball so as to send it up into the air. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. (Mining) See Cob, v. t. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ W. llob an unwieldy lump, a dull fellow, a blockhead. Cf. Looby, Lubber. ] 1. A dull, heavy person. “ Country lobs.” Gauden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Something thick and heavy. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to a lobe; characterized by, or like, a lobe or lobes. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ See Lobe. ] 1. (Bot.) Consisting of, or having, lobes; lobed; as, a lobate leaf. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) (a) Having lobes; -- said of the tails of certain fishes having the integument continued to the bases of the fin rays. (b) Furnished with membranous flaps, as the toes of a coot. See Illust. (m) under Aves. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. As a lobe; so as to make a lobe; in a lobate manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Like a lob; consisting of lobs. Sir. P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Lobbies [ LL. lobium, lobia, laubia, a covered portico fit for walking, fr. OHG. louba, G. laube, arbor. See Lodge. ] 1. (Arch.) A passage or hall of communication, especially when large enough to serve also as a waiting room. It differs from an antechamber in that a lobby communicates between several rooms, an antechamber to one only; but this distinction is not carefully preserved. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That part of a hall of legislation not appropriated to the official use of the assembly; hence, the persons, collectively, who frequent such a place to transact business with the legislators; hence: any persons, not members of a legislative body, who strive to influence its proceedings by personal agency; a group of lobbyists for a particular cause; as, the drug industry lobby. [ U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

3. (Naut.) An apartment or passageway in the fore part of an old-fashioned cabin under the quarter-deck. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Agric.) A confined place for cattle, formed by hedges. trees, or other fencing, near the farmyard. [ 1913 Webster ]

Lobby member, a lobbyist. [ Humorous cant, U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]