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What's The Definition Of 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. To see the life as lively mocked as ever Still sleep mocked death. --Shak. Mocking marriage with a dame of France. --Shak. 2. To treat with scorn or contempt; to deride. Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud. --1 Kings xviii. 27. Let not ambition mock their useful toil. --Gray. 3. To disappoint the hopes of; to deceive; to tantalize; as, to mock expectation. Thou hast mocked me, and told me lies. --Judg. xvi. 13. He will not . . . Mock us with his blest sight, then snatch him hence. --Milton. Syn: To deride; ridicule; taunt; jeer; tantalize; disappoint. See {Deride}.
\Mock\, v. i. To make sport contempt or in jest; to speak in a scornful or jeering manner. When thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed? --Job xi. 3. She had mocked at his proposal. --Froude.
\Mock\, n. 1. An act of ridicule or derision; a scornful or contemptuous act or speech; a sneer; a jibe; a jeer. Fools make a mock at sin. --Prov. xiv. 9. 2. Imitation; mimicry. [R.] --Crashaw.
\Mock\, a. Imitating reality, but not real; false; counterfeit; assumed; sham. That superior greatness and mock majesty. --Spectator. {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} (Zo["o]l.), the European blackcap. {Mock orange} (Bot.), a genus of American and Asiatic shrubs ({Philadelphus}), with showy white flowers in panicled cymes. {P. 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}.