Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Mimicking"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Mimic \Mim"ic\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Mimicked}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Mimicking}.]
1. To imitate or ape for sport; to ridicule by imitation.
The walk, the words, the gesture, could supply, The
habit mimic, and the mien belie. --Dryden.
2. (Biol.) To assume a resemblance to (some other organism of
a totally different nature, or some surrounding object),
as a means of protection or advantage.
Syn: To ape; imitate; counterfeit; mock.
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