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To mock or insult; to treat with contempt. Phillida flouts me. Walton. Three gaudy standarts lout the pale blue sky. Byron.

One who flouts; a mocker.

hildren; also, a coarse hirtlike garment worn by some workmen over their ther clothes; a smock frock; as, a marketman's frock.

To insult; to flout; to mock; to snub. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

A mocker. [Obs.] Cotgrave.

are the arctic fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis) (called also fulmar petrel, malduck, and mollemock), and the giant fulmar (Ossifraga gigantea).

ckstone. Confidence game. See under Confidence. -- To make game of, to make sport of; to mock. Milton.

A rope on which hammocks or clothes are hung for drying. To take up the gauntlet, to accept a challenge. -- To throw down the gauntlet, to offer or send a challenge. The gauntlet or glove was thrown down by the knight challenging, and was taken up by the one who accepted the challenge; -- hence the phrases.…

To deride; to scorn; to mock. [Prov. Eng.]

To reproach with contemptuous words; to deride; to scoff at; to mock. Draw the beasts as I describe them, From their features, while I gibe them. Swift.

Befitting a giant; bombastic; magniloquent. The sort of mock-heroic gigantesque With which we bantered little Lilia first. Tennyson.

To sneer at; to mock; to gibe. Being moved, he will not spare to gird the gods. Shak.

A gantline. Hammock girtline, a line rigged for hanging out hammocks to dry.

A deception for mockery or mischief; a deceptive trick or story; a practical joke. Macaulay.

To play upon by artifice; to deceive; to mock; to excite and disappoint the hopes of.

eal image presented to the bodily or mental vision; a deceptive appearance; a false show; mockery; hallucination. To cheat the eye with blear illusions. Milton.

To mock; to trick. Chaucer. I have not been putting a jape upon you. Sir W. Scott. The coy giggle of the young lady to whom he has imparted his latest merry jape. W. Besant.

To utter sarcastic or scoffing reflections; to speak with mockery or derision; to use taunting language; to scoff; as, to jeer at a speaker. But when he saw her toy and gibe and jeer. Spenser.

A scoffer; a railer; a mocker.

Mocking; scoffing. -- n.