Chapter Mobbish to Moder of M by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

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
(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 — Mock nightingale (Zoöl.), the European blackcap. — Mock orange (Bot.), a genus of American and Asiatic shrubs 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.

Mockable
(Mock"a*ble) a. Such as can be mocked. Shak.

Mockado
(Mock"a*do) n. A stuff made in imitation of velvet; — probably the same as mock velvet. [Obs.]

Our rich mockado doublet.

Ford.

Mockadour
(Mock"a*dour) n. See Mokadour. [Obs.]

Mockage
(Mock"age) n. Mockery. [Obs.] Fuller.

Mockbird
(Mock"bird`) n. (Zoöl.) The European sedge warbler (Acrocephalus phragmitis).

Mocker
(Mock"er) n.

1. One who, or that which, mocks; a scorner; a scoffer; a derider.

2. A deceiver; an impostor.

3. (Zoöl.) A mocking bird.

Mocker nut (Bot.), a kind of hickory (Carya tomentosa) and its fruit, which is far inferior to the true shagbark hickory nut.

Mockery
(Mock"er*y) n.; pl. Mockeries [F. moquerie.]

1. The act of mocking, deriding, and exposing to contempt, by mimicry, by insincere imitation, or by a false show of earnestness; a counterfeit appearance.

It is, as the air, invulnerable,
And our vain blows malicious mockery.

Shak.

Grace at meals is now generally so performed as to look more like a mockery upon devotion than any solemn application of the mind to God.

Law.

And bear about the mockery of woe.

Pope.

2. Insulting or contemptuous action or speech; contemptuous merriment; derision; ridicule.

The laughingstock of fortune's mockeries.

Spenser.