\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}.

\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.

\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.

\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}.