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adjective

Mock adj. Imitating reality, but not real; false; counterfeit; assumed; sham. "That superior greatness and mock majesty."

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 (Zool.), the European blackcap.

Mock orange (Bot.), a genus of American and Asiatic shrubs (Philadelphus), with showy white flowers in panicled cymes. Philadelphus 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.

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"Mock sun" Quotes from Famous Books

... laughs so loud, or than Walden pond itself. What company has that lonely lake, I pray? And yet it has not the blue devils, but the blue angels in it, in the azure tint of its waters. The sun is alone, except in thick weather, when there sometimes appear to be two, but one is a mock sun. God is alone—but the devil, he is far from being alone; he sees a great deal of company; he is legion. I am no more lonely than a single mullein or dandelion in a pasture, or a bean leaf, or sorrel, or a horse-fly, or a humble-bee. I am ...

— The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. X (of X) - America - II, Index • Various

... seemed to her a fearful place since Mabilla had been brought into it. There were signs everywhere. That summer it thundered out of a clear sky. Once in the early morning she had seen a bright light above the sun—a mock sun which shone more fiercely than a fire in daylight. She heard wild voices singing; on still days she saw the trees in Knapp Forest bent to a furious wind. When Mabilla crept up the fell on noiseless feet to spy for Andrew King, Bessie Prawle heard the bents hiss ...

— Lore of Proserpine • Maurice Hewlett

... this, any more than we can upon the question whether the 'horror of great darkness' which fell upon Abraham (Genesis xv. 12) when the sun was going down, was caused by an eclipse;[38] or whether the going back of the shadow upon the dial of Ahaz was caused by a mock sun. The star seen by the wise men from the east may have been a comet, since the word translated 'star' signifies any bright object seen in the heavens, and is in fact the same word which Homer, in a passage frequently ...

— Myths and Marvels of Astronomy • Richard A. Proctor