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One who favors a form of government in which the unintelligent populace rules without restraint. Bayne.

Of, or relating to, a mobocracy.

A poisonous snake of the Southern United States. The water moccasin (Ancistrodon piscivorus) is usually found in or near water. Above, it is olive brown, barred with black; beneath, it is brownish yellow, mottled with darker. The upland moccasin is Ancistrodon atrofuscus. They resemble rattlesnakes, but are without rat…

Covered with, or wearing, a moccasin or moccasins. "Moccasined feet." Harper's Mag.

A variety of coffee brought from Mocha.

A bale of raw silk.

Much. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A large leather flap which covers the saddletree. [Western U.S.]

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.

Such as can be mocked. Shak.

A stuff made in imitation of velvet; -- probably the same as mock velvet. [Obs.] Our rich mockado doublet. Ford.

See Mokadour. [Obs.]

Mockery. [Obs.] Fuller.

The European sedge warbler (Acrocephalus phragmitis).

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

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…

Imitating, esp. in derision, or so as to cause derision; mimicking; derisive. Mocking bird (Zoöl.), a North American singing bird (Mimus polyglottos), remarkable for its exact imitations of the notes of other birds. Its back is gray; the tail and wings are blackish, with a white patch on each wing; the outer tail feath…

By way of derision; in a contemptuous or mocking manner.

A butt of sport; an object of derision. [R.]

Mock; counterfeit; sham. [Obs.]