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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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   Mocking, a. Imitating, esp. in derision, or so as to cause derision; mimicking; derisive.
   
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   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.
   
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