To see the life as lively mocked as ever
Still sleep mocked death. Shak.

Mocking marriage with a dame of France. Shak.

Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud. 1 Kings xviii. 27.

Let not ambition mock their useful toil. Gray.

Thou hast mocked me, and told me lies. Judg. xvi. 13.

He will not . . .
Mock us with his blest sight, then snatch him hence. Milton.

Syn. -- To deride; ridicule; taunt; jeer; tantalize; disappoint. See Deride.

When thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed? Job xi. 3.

She had mocked at his proposal. Froude.

Fools make a mock at sin. Prov. xiv. 9.

That superior greatness and mock majesty. Spectator.

Mock bishop's weed (Bot.), a genus of slender umbelliferous herbs (Discopleura) growing in wet places. -- Mock heroic, burlesquing the heroic; as, a mock heroic poem. -- Mock lead. See Blende (a). -- Mock nightingale (Zoöl.), the European blackcap. -- Mock orange (Bot.), a genus of American and Asiatic shrubs (Philadelphus), with showy white flowers in panicled cymes. P. coronarius, from Asia, has fragrant flowers; the American kinds are nearly scentless. -- Mock sun. See Parhelion. -- Mock turtle soup, a soup made of calf's head, veal, or other meat, and condiments, in imitation of green turtle soup. -- Mock velvet, a fabric made in imitation of velvet. See Mockado.