Mocker nut (Bot.), a kind of hickory (Carya tomentosa) and its fruit,
which is far inferior to the true shagbark hickory nut.
Mock"er*y (?), n.; pl. Mockeries (#). [F. moquerie.] 1. The act of
mocking, deriding, and exposing to contempt, by mimicry, by insincere
imitation, or by a false show of earnestness; a counterfeit appearance.
It is, as the air, invulnerable, And our vain blows malicious
mockery.
Shak.
Grace at meals is now generally so performed as to look more like a
mockery upon devotion than any solemn application of the mind to
God.
Law.
And bear about the mockery of woe.
Pope.
2. Insulting or contemptuous action or speech; contemptuous merriment;
derision; ridicule.
The laughingstock of fortune's mockeries.
Spenser.