Despise wealth and imitate a dog. --Cowlay.
2. To produce a semblance or likeness of, in form, character,
color, qualities, conduct, manners, and the like; to
counterfeit; to copy.
A place picked out by choice of best alive The
Nature's work by art can imitate. --Spenser.
This hand appeared a shining sword to weild, And
that sustained an imitated shield. --Dryden.
3. (Biol.) To resemble (another species of animal, or a
plant, or inanimate object) in form, color, ornamentation,
or instinctive habits, so as to derive an advantage
thereby; sa, when a harmless snake imitates a venomous one
in color and manner, or when an odorless insect imitates,
in color, one having secretion offensive to birds.