a pack, string, or swarm of animals or insects; a crowd or array of disorderly people; the low or disorderly part of the populace; a disorderly collection; a confused medley.
Examples: rabble of appetites, passions and opinions; of bees; of books; of butterflies; of ceremonies; of licentious deities; of discourse; of dishes; of flies; of friars; of gnats; of insects; of monks; of murderers; of opinions; of passions; of people; of mean and light persons; of pictures; of scholastic precepts; of priests; of readers; of reasons; of remedies; of schoolmen; of strangers; of uncommanded traditions; of womenhood; of words.