Bemock: alternatives and connections

Any substance, esp. food, used in catching fish, or other animals, by alluring them to a hook, snare, inclosure, or net.

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The scullions and lower menials of a court, or of a nobleman's household, who, in a removal from one residence to another, had charge of the kitchen…

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A husk; a pod; as, a peascod.

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To laugh at with contempt; to laugh to scorn; to turn to ridicule or make sport of; to mock; to scoff at.

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A rope, chain, or rod attached to anything to steady it; as: a rope to steady or guide an object which is being hoisted or lowered; a rope which hold…

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To scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter.

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To collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or thrown into confusion; to gather again; to reunite.

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One of the curved bones attached to the vertebral column and supporting the lateral walls of the thorax.

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To be carried on the back of an animal, as a horse.

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An object of sport or laughter; a laughingstock; a laughing matter.

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To cook by exposure to radiant heat before a fire; as, to roast meat on a spit, or in an oven open toward the fire and having reflecting surfaces wit…

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To tease or torment by presenting some good to the view and exciting desire, but continually frustrating the expectations by keeping that good out of…

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Very high or tall; as, a ship with taunt masts.

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To comb or card, as wool or flax.

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To vex by bringing to notice, or reminding of, a fault, defect, misfortune, or the like; to revile; to reproach; to upbraid; to taunt; as, he twitted…

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To touch; to feel with the hand; to use or hold with the hand.

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To handle; to manage; to use; to bear one's self toward; as, to treat prisoners cruelly; to treat children kindly.

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One who, or that which, mocks; a scorner; a scoffer; a derider.

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One who, or that which, mocks; a scorner; a scoffer; a derider.

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The act of mocking, deriding, and exposing to contempt, by mimicry, by insincere imitation, or by a false show of earnestness; a counterfeit appearan…

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The act of mocking, deriding, and exposing to contempt, by mimicry, by insincere imitation, or by a false show of earnestness; a counterfeit appearan…

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To imitate; to mimic; esp., to mimic in sport, contempt, or derision; to deride by mimicry.

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