Emily Dickinson Lexicon

MO'BILE, a. [Fr.]

Movable. [Not used.] – Skelton.

MO'BILE, n. [Fr. from L. mobilis.]

The mob; the populace. – South. Primum mobile. [L.] In the ancient astronomy, a ninth heaven or sphere, supposed to be beyond the fixed stars, and to be the first mover of all the lower spheres.

MO-BIL'I-TY, n. [Fr. mobilité; L. mobilitas, from moveo, to move.]

1. Susceptibility of motion; capacity of being moved. – Wotton.
2. Aptitude to motion; activity; readiness to move. – Arbuthnot.
3. In cant language, the populace. – Dryden.
4. Fickleness; inconstancy. – Ainsworth.

MOB'LE, v.t.

To wrap the head in a hood. – Shak.

MOC'CA-SON, n. [Am. Indian word. Algonquin, makisin.]

1. A shoe or cover for the feet, made of deer skin or other soft leather, without a sole, and ornamented on the upper side; the customary shoe worn by the native Indians.
2. A poisonous water serpent of the southern United States, called by naturalists Trigonocephalus piscivorus.

MO'CHA-STONE, n. [from Mocha, in Arabia.]

Dendritic agate; a mineral in the interior of which appear brown, reddish brown, blackish or green delineations of shrubs destitute of leaves. These in some cases may have been produced by the filtration of the oxyds of iron and manganese; but in other cases they appear to be vegetable fibers, sometimes retaining their natural form and color, and sometimes coated by oxyd of iron. Cleaveland.

MOCK, a.

False; counterfeit; assumed; imitating reality, but not real. That superior greatness and mock majesty. Spectator.

MOCK, n.

1. Ridicule; derision; sneer; an act manifesting contempt. Fools make a mock at sin. Prov. xiv. What shall be the portion of those who make a mock at every thing sacred? Tillotsen.
2. Imitation; mimickry. [Little used.] Crashaw.

MOCK, v.i.

To make sport in contempt or in jest, or to speak jestingly. When thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed? Job xi.

MOCK, v.t. [Fr. moquer; Gr. μωκαω; W. mociaw, to mock, and moc, a mimick; Ir. magadh or mogadh, a mocking; Ch. and Syr. מוק. Class Mg, No. 10.]

1. Properly, to imitate; to mimick; hence, to imitate in contempt or derision; to mimick for the sake of derision; to deride by mimickry.
2. To deride; to laugh at; to ridicule; to treat with scorn or contempt. As he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, saying, Go up, thou bald head. 2 Kings ii. Mark x.
3. To defeat; to illude; to disappoint; to deceive; as, to mock expectation. Thou hast mocked me and told me lies. Judg. xvi.
4. To fool; to tantalize; to play on in contempt. He will not / Mock us with his blest sight, then snatch him hence. Milton.

MOCK'A-BLE, a.

Exposed to derision. [Little used.] Shak.

MOCK'AGE, a.

Mockery. [Not used.] Elyot.

MOCKED, pp.

Imitated or mimicked in derision; laughed at; ridiculed; defeated; illuded.

MOCK'ER, n.

1. One that mocks; a scorner; a scoffer; a derider. South.
2. A deceiver; an impostor.

MOCK'ER-Y, n.

1. The act of deriding and exposing to contempt, by mimicking the words or actions of another.
2. Derision; ridicule; sportive insult or contempt; contemptuous merriment at persons or things. Grace at meals is now generally so performed as to look more like mockery upon devotion, than any solemn application of the mind to God. Law.
3. Sport; subject of laughter. Of the holy place they made a mockery. Maccabees.
4. Vain imitation or effort; that which deceives, disappoints or frustrated. It is as the air, invulnerable, / And our vain blows malicious mockery. Shak.
5. Imitation; counterfeit appearance; false show. And bear about the mockery of woe / To midnight dances. Pope.

MOCK'E-SON, n.

The name of a serpent.

MOCK'ING, n.

Derision; insult.

MOCK'ING, ppr.

Imitating in contempt; mimicking; ridiculing by mimickry; treating with sneers and scorn; defeating; deluding.

MOCK'ING-BIRD, n.

The mocking thrush of America; a bird of the genus Turtlus.

MOCK'ING-LY, adv.

By way of derision; in contempt.

MOCK'ING-STOCK, n.

A butt of sport.

MOCK'LE, a. [See MICKLE.]

MOCK'-LEAD, or MOCK'-ORE, n.

A sulphuret of zink, the same as blend, – which see.

MOCK'-OR-ANGE, n.

A plant of the genus Philadelphus.

MOCK'PRIV-ET, n.

A plant of the genus Phillyrea.