Fools make a mock at sin. --Prov. xiv.
9.
2. Imitation; mimicry. [R.] --Crashaw.
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.
Syn: To deride; ridicule; taunt; jeer; tantalize; disappoint.
See {Deride}.
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} (Zo["o]l.), the European blackcap.
{Mock orange} (Bot.), a genus of American and Asiatic shrubs
({Philadelphus}), with showy white flowers in panicled
cymes. {P. coronarius}, from Asia, has fragrant flowers;
the American kinds are nearly scentless.
{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}.
When thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?
--Job xi. 3.
She had mocked at his proposal. --Froude.