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Mock \Mock\, n.
1. An act of ridicule or derision; a scornful or contemptuous
act or speech; a sneer; a jibe; a jeer.
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Fools make a mock at sin. --Prov. xiv.
9.
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2. Imitation; mimicry. [R.] --Crashaw.
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Mock \Mock\, a.
Imitating reality, but not real; false; counterfeit; assumed;
sham.
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That superior greatness and mock majesty. --Spectator.
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{Mock bishop's weed} (Bot.), a genus of slender umbelliferous
herbs ({Discopleura}) growing in wet places.

{Mock heroic}, burlesquing the heroic; as, a mock heroic
poem.

{Mock lead}. See {Blende} (
a ).

{Mock nightingale} (Zool.), the European blackcap.

{Mock orange} (Bot.), a genus of American and Asiatic shrubs
({Philadelphus}), with showy white flowers in panicled
cymes. {Philadelphus coronarius}, from Asia, has fragrant
flowers; the American kinds are nearly scentless.

{Mock sun}. See {Parhelion}.

{Mock turtle soup}, a soup made of calf's head, veal, or
other meat, and condiments, in imitation of green turtle
soup.

{Mock velvet}, a fabric made in imitation of velvet. See
{Mockado}.
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Mock \Mock\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Mocked}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Mocking}.] [F. moquer, of uncertain origin; cf. OD. mocken
to mumble, G. mucken, OSw. mucka.]
1. To imitate; to mimic; esp., to mimic in sport, contempt,
or derision; to deride by mimicry.
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To see the life as lively mocked as ever
Still sleep mocked death. --Shak.
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Mocking marriage with a dame of France. --Shak.
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2. To treat with scorn or contempt; to deride.
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Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud. --1 Kings
xviii. 27.
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Let not ambition mock their useful toil. --Gray.
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3. To disappoint the hopes of; to deceive; to tantalize; as,
to mock expectation.
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Thou hast mocked me, and told me lies. --Judg. xvi.
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He will not . . .
Mock us with his blest sight, then snatch him hence.
--Milton.
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Syn: To deride; ridicule; taunt; jeer; tantalize; disappoint.
See {Deride}.
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Mock \Mock\, v. i.
To make sport in contempt or in jest; to speak in a scornful
or jeering manner.
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When thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?
--Job xi. 3.
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She had mocked at his proposal. --Froude.
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