Mock

v. t.	1.	To imitate; to mimic; esp., to mimic in sport, contempt, or derision; to deride by mimicry. [imp. & p. p. Mocked ; p. pr. & vb. n. Mocking.] 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.
v. i.	1.	To make sport in 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.
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.
a.	1.	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 a - See Blende (a). Mock nightingale (Zool.) the European blackcap. Mock orange (Bot.) a genus of American and Asiatic shrubs (Philadelphus), with showy white flowers in panicled cymes. Philadelphus 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.

Noun	1.	mock - the act of mocking or ridiculing; "they made a mock of him"
Verb	1.	mock - treat with contempt; "The new constitution mocks all democratic principles" Synonyms: bemock
	2.	mock - imitate with mockery and derision; "The children mocked their handicapped classmate"
Adj.	1.	mock - constituting a copy or imitation of something; "boys in mock battle"

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