Mock \Mock\, 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. [R.]

--Crashaw.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Mock \Mock\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mocked; p. pr. & vb. n. Mocking.]

[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.

Syn: To deride; ridicule; taunt; jeer; tantalize; disappoint. See Deride.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Mock \Mock\, 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 (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 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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Mock \Mock\, v. i. To make sport 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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)