mock

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1. 1.To treat with scorn or contempt; to deride. Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud. 1 Kings xviii.
2. 2.Let not ambition mock their useful toil. Gray.
3. 3.To disappoint the hopes of; to deceive; to tantalize; as, to mock expectation. Thou hast mocked me, and told me lies. Judg. xvi.
4. 4.He will not ... Mock us with his blest sight, then snatch him hence. Milton. See Deride.
5. 5.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.
6. 6.She had mocked at his proposal. Froude.
7. 7.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.
8. 8.2. Imitation; mimicry. [R.] Crashaw.
9. 9.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 (Zoöl.), 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 Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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• What is to treat with scorn or contempt; to deride. Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud. 1 Kings xviii called?
• What is let not ambition mock their useful toil. Gray called?
• What is to disappoint the hopes of; to deceive; to tantalize; as, to mock expectation. Thou hast mocked me, and told me lies. Judg. xvi called?
• What is he will not ... Mock us with his blest sight, then snatch him hence. Milton. See Deride called?
• What is 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 called?
• What is 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 called?