Representing by imitation or likeness; having a resemblance to something else; portrayed.
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To imitate; to mimic; esp., to mimic in sport, contempt, or derision; to deride by mimicry.
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Representing by imitation or likeness; having a resemblance to something else; portrayed.
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Representing by imitation or likeness; having a resemblance to something else; portrayed.
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Inclined to imitate, copy, or follow; imitating; exhibiting some of the qualities or characteristics of a pattern or model; dependent on example; not…
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Inclined to imitate, copy, or follow; imitating; exhibiting some of the qualities or characteristics of a pattern or model; dependent on example; not…
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A quadrumanous mammal, esp. of the family Simiadae, having teeth of the same number and form as in man, and possessing neither a tail nor cheek pouch…
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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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Tending to excite laughter or contempt by extravagant images, or by a contrast between the subject and the manner of treating it, as when a trifling…
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An exaggeration, or distortion by exaggeration, of parts or characteristics, as in a picture.
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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 invest with personality; to endow with the form of a living being.
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A writing in which the language or sentiment of an author is mimicked; especially, a kind of literary pleasantry, in which what is written on one sub…
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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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An abundance or plenty of anything.
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The act of deriding, or the state of being derided; mockery; scornful or contemptuous treatment which holds one up to ridicule.
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To touch; to feel with the hand; to use or hold with the hand.
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To follow as a pattern, model, or example; to copy or strive to copy, in acts, manners etc.
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An object of sport or laughter; a laughingstock; a laughing matter.
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Feigned; pretended.
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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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To mock; to ridicule.
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