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}.
{Mocking bird} (Zo["o]l.), a North American singing bird
({Mimus polyglottos}), remarkable for its exact imitations
of the notes of other birds. Its back is gray; the tail
and wings are blackish, with a white patch on each wing;
the outer tail feathers are partly white. The name is also
applied to other species of the same genus, found in
Mexico, Central America, and the West Indies.
{Mocking thrush} (Zo["o]l.), any species of the genus
{Harporhynchus}, as the brown thrush ({H. rufus}).
{Mocking wren} (Zo["o]l.), any American wren of the genus
{Thryothorus}, esp. {T. Ludovicianus}.