mock vb. (3 is peculiar to S.)
1.
to defy, set at
nought
Mer.V. II. i. 30
“mock the lion when he
roars for prey,”
Tw.N. III. iv. 228
“mocks reproof,”
Mac. II. ii. 7, Ant. III. xi. [xiii.] 184
2.
“mock with,” ridicule
Sonn. lxxi. 14
“mock you with me after
I am gone.”
3.
to simulate, make a
false pretence of
3H6 III. iii. 255
“For m-ing
marriage,”
Ant. V. i. 2.
