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; 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 than any solemn application of the mind to God. Law. And bear about the mockery of woe. Pope.

By way of derision or mockery.

The act of deriding, or the state of being derided; mockery; scornful or contemptuous treatment which holds one up to ridicule. He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh; the Lord shall have them in derision. Ps. ii. 4. Saderision called. Milton.

Act of eluding; adroit escape, as by artifice; a mockery; a cheat; trickery.

A word or look of derision or mockery. And mark the fleers, the gibes, and notable scorn. Shak.

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

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 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.

s, to laugh one out of a plan or purpose. -- To laugh to scorn, to deride; to treat with mockery, contempt, and scorn; to despise.

Mockery. [Obs.] Fuller.

The god of mockery and censure.

Derision; ridicule; mockery; derisive or mocking expression of scorn, contempt, or reproach. With scoffs, and scorns, and contumelious taunts. Shak.

The act of scoffing; scoffing conduct; mockery. Holinshed.

Mock; mockery; contemptuous mirth; derision. Then make sport at me; then let me be your jest.Shak.

Derision; mockery. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.