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n. [ AS. cammoc. ] (Bot.) A plant having long hard, crooked roots, the Ononis spinosa; -- called also rest-harrow. The Scandix Pecten-Veneris is also called cammock. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ A word of Indian origin: cf. Sp. hamaca. Columbus, in the Narrative of his first voyage, says: “A great many Indians in canoes came to the ship to-day for the purpose of bartering their cotton, and hamacas, or nets, in which they sleep.” ] 1. A swinging couch or bed, usually made of netting or canvas about six feet long and three feet wide, suspended by clews or cords at the ends. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A piece of land thickly wooded, and usually covered with bushes and vines. Used also adjectively; as, hammock land. [ Southern U. S. ] Bartlett. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hammock nettings (Naut.), formerly, nets for stowing hammocks; now, more often, wooden boxes or a trough on the rail, used for that purpose.

n. A small eminence of a conical form, of land or of ice; a knoll; a hillock. See Hummock. Bartram. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Filled with hommocks; piled in the form of hommocks; -- said of ice. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Prob. a dim. of hump. See Hump. ] 1. A rounded knoll or hillock; a rise of ground of no great extent, above a level surface. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A ridge or pile of ice on an ice field. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Timbered land. See Hammock. [ Southern U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The process of forming hummocks in the collision of Arctic ice. Kane. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Abounding in hummocks. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. (Bot.) A plant of the genus Cardamine (Cardamine pratensis); cuckoo flower. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. (Zool.) See Mollemoke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Ir. & Gael. mam a round hill + -ock. ] A shapeless piece; a fragment. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To tear to pieces. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To make sport in contempt or in jest; to speak in a scornful or jeering manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

When thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed? Job xi. 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

She had mocked at his proposal. Froude. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

To see the life as lively mocked as ever
Still sleep mocked death. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Mocking marriage with a dame of France. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To treat with scorn or contempt; to deride. [ 1913 Webster ]

Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud. 1 Kings xviii. 27. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let not ambition mock their useful toil. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To disappoint the hopes of; to deceive; to tantalize; as, to mock expectation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thou hast mocked me, and told me lies. Judg. xvi. 13. [ 1913 Webster ]

He will not . . .
Mock us with his blest sight, then snatch him hence. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To deride; ridicule; taunt; jeer; tantalize; disappoint. See Deride. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. An act of ridicule or derision; a scornful or contemptuous act or speech; a sneer; a jibe; a jeer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fools make a mock at sin. Prov. xiv. 9. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Imitation; mimicry. [ R. ] Crashaw. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Imitating reality, but not real; false; counterfeit; assumed; sham. [ 1913 Webster ]

That superior greatness and mock majesty. Spectator. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Such as can be mocked. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A stuff made in imitation of velvet; -- probably the same as mock velvet. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Our rich mockado doublet. Ford. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Mokadour. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Mockery. [ Obs. ] Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The European sedge warbler (Acrocephalus phragmitis). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, mocks; a scorner; a scoffer; a derider. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A deceiver; an impostor. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Zool.) A mocking bird. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Bot.), A smooth-barked North American hickory (Carya tomentosa) with 7 to 9 leaflets bearing a hard-shelled edible nut, which is far inferior to the true shagbark hickory nut.
Syn. -- mockernut hickory, black hickory, white-heart hickory, big-bud hickory, Carya tomentosa . [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

2. The fruit of the mockernut{ 1 }. [ PJC ]

n.; pl. Mockeries [ F. moquerie. ] 1. The act of mocking, deriding, and exposing to contempt, by mimicry, by insincere imitation, or by a false show of earnestness; a counterfeit appearance. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is, as the air, invulnerable,
And our vain blows malicious mockery. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Grace at meals is now generally so performed as to look more like a mockery upon devotion than any solemn application of the mind to God. Law. [ 1913 Webster ]

And bear about the mockery of woe. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Insulting or contemptuous action or speech; contemptuous merriment; derision; ridicule. [ 1913 Webster ]

The laughingstock of fortune's mockeries. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Subject of laughter, derision, or sport. [ 1913 Webster ]

The cruel handling of the city whereof they made a mockery. 2 Macc. viii. 17. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Imitating, esp. in derision, or so as to cause derision; mimicking; derisive. [ 1913 Webster ]

Mocking thrush (Zool.), any species of the genus Harporhynchus, as the brown thrush (Harporhynchus rufus). --
Mocking wren (Zool.), any American wren of the genus Thryothorus, esp. Thryothorus Ludovicianus. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.), A long-tailed gray-and-white songbird of North America (Mimus polyglottos), remarkable for its exact imitations of the notes of other birds. Its back is gray; the tail and wings are blackish, with a white patch on each wing; the outer tail feathers are partly white. Originally its range was confined mostly to the southern states, but by late 19th century it had migrated as far north as New York. The name is also applied to other members of thee same and related genera, found in Mexico, Central America, and the West Indies, such as the blue mockingbird of Mexico, Melanotis caerulescens.
Syn. -- mocker, Mimus polyglottos . [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adv. By way of derision; in a contemptuous or mocking manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A butt of sport; an object of derision. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Mock; counterfeit; sham. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. See Mickle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. smocc; akin to OHG. smocho, Icel. smokkr, and from the root of AS. smūgan to creep, akin to G. schmiegen to cling to, press close, MHG. smiegen, Icel. smjūga to creep through, to put on a garment which has a hole to put the head through; cf. Lith. smukti to glide. Cf. Smug, Smuggle. ] 1. A woman's under-garment; a shift; a chemise. [ 1913 Webster ]

In her smock, with head and foot all bare. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A blouse; a smoock frock. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to a smock; resembling a smock; hence, of or pertaining to a woman. [ 1913 Webster ]

Smock mill, a windmill of which only the cap turns round to meet the wind, in distinction from a post mill, whose whole building turns on a post. --
Smock race, a race run by women for the prize of a smock. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To provide with, or clothe in, a smock or a smock frock. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a feminine countenance or complexion; smooth-faced; girlish. Fenton. [ 1913 Webster ]

A coarse frock, or shirt, worn over the other dress, as by farm laborers. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]