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   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. 13.
   
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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, 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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   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, 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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