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. [ 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 ]