mockv. t.[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.)()v. i. To make sport in 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.)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.(Crashaw.)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 (Zol.), 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.()