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One who imitates or mimics, especially one who does so for sport; a copyist; a buffoon. Burke.

Imitative; mimetic. Oft, in her absence, mimic fancy wakes To imitate her. Milton. Man is, of all creatures, the most mimical. W. Wotton.

In an imitative manner.

One who mimics; a mimic.

The act or practice of one who mimics; ludicrous imitation for sport or ridicule.

Of or pertaining to the pantomime; representing by dumb show. "Pantomimic gesture." Bp. Warburton. -- Pan`to*mim"ic*al*ly, adv.

One who imitates servilely (in allusion to the manners of the ape); a mimic. Byron.

The quality of being apish; mimicry; foppery.

To mimic; to counterfeit. [Obs.] Dryden.

an who makes a practice of amusing others by low tricks, antic gestures, etc.; a droll; a mimic; a harlequin; a clown; a merry-andrew.

wn, or characteristic of a clown; ungainly; awkward. "Clownish hands." Spenser. "Clownish mimic." Prior. -- Clown"ish*ly, adv.

An encounter. [Obs.] With kindly counter under mimic shade. Spenser.

To imitate, or put on a semblance of; to mimic; as, to counterfeit the voice of another person. Full well they laughed with counterfeited glee At all his jokes, for many a joke had he. Goldsmith.

One who impersonates; an actor; a mimic.

To mimic. [Obs.] -- Mim"er, n.

Imitation; mimicry.

Apt to imitate; given to mimicry; imitative.

Same as Mimicry.

To imitate; to mimic; esp., 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.

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…