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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.]

See Mickle.

To mock; to ridicule. Bemock the modest moon. Shak.

Ononis spinosa; -- called also rest-harrow. The Scandix Pecten-Veneris is also called cammock.

thickly wooded, and usually covered with bushes and vines. Used also adjectively; as, hammock land. [Southern U. S.] Bartlett. Hammock nettings (Naut.), formerly, nets for stowing hammocks; now, more often, wooden boxes or a trough on the rail, used for that purpose.

A small eminence of a conical form, of land or of ice; a knoll; a hillock. See Hummock. Bartram.

Filled with hommocks; piled in the form of hommocks; -- said of ice.

Timbered land. See Hammock. [Southern U.S.]

The process of forming hummocks in the collision of Arctic ice. Kane.