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Abounding in hummocks.

A plant of the genus Cardamine (C. pratensis); cuckoo flower.

See Mollemoke.

A shapeless piece; a fragment. [Obs.]

A woman's under-garment; a shift; a chemise. In her smock, with head and foot all bare. Chaucer.

A coarse frock, or shirt, worn over the other dress, as by farm laborers. Macaulay.

Having a feminine countenance or complexion; smooth-faced; girlish. Fenton.

Wanting a smock. Chaucer.

or end; as, look at it; to point at one; to aim at a mark; to throw, strike, shoot, wink, mock, laugh at any one. At all, At home, At large, At last, At length, At once, etc. See under All, Home, Large, Last (phrase and syn.), Length, Once, etc. -- At it, busily or actively engaged. -- At least. See Least and However…

ng an air of authority; positive; dictatorial; peremptory; as, an authoritative tone. The mock authoritative manner of the one, and the insipid mirth of the other. Swift. -- Au*thor"i*ta*tive*ly, adv -- Au*thor"i*ta*tive*ness, n.

A small European song bird (Sylvia atricapilla), with a black crown; the mock nightingale.

but held in high honor: To calumniate; to revile; to abuse. You do blaspheme the good in mocking me. Shak. Those who from our labors heap their board, Blaspheme their feeder and forget their lord. Pope.

A mineral, called also sphalerite, and by miners mock lead, false galena, and black-jack. It is a zinc sulphide, but often contains some iron. Its color is usually yellow, brown, or black, and its luster resinous.

A light, loose over-garment, like a smock frock, worn especially by workingmen in France; also, a loose coat of any material, as the undress uniform coat of the United States army.

To mock or delude; to cheat. To play her pranks, and bob the fool, The shrewish wife began. Turbervile.

A common American singing bird (Harporhynchus rufus), allied to the mocking bird; -- also called brown thrasher.

een the subject and the manner of treating it, as when a trifling subject is treated with mock gravity; jocular; ironical. It is a dispute among the critics, whether burlesque poetry runs best in heroic verse, like that of the Dispensary, or in doggerel, like that of Hudibras. Addison.

t Louis XIV, after the revocation of the edict of Nates; -- so called from the peasant's smock (camise) which they wore.

A genus of cruciferous plants, containing the lady's-smock, cuckooflower, bitter cress, meadow cress, etc.

An American bird (Galeoscoptes Carolinensis), allied to the mocking bird, and like it capable of imitating the notes of other birds, but less perfectly. Its note resembles at times the mewing of a cat.