Chapter Mobbish to Moder of M by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

3. Subject of laughter, derision, or sport.

The cruel handling of the city whereof they made a mockery.

2 Macc. viii. 17.

Mocking
(Mock"ing), a. Imitating, esp. in derision, or so as to cause derision; mimicking; derisive.

Mocking bird (Zoöl.), a North American singing bird remarkable for its exact imitations of the notes of other birds. Its back is gray; the tail and wings are blackish, with a white patch on each wing; the outer tail feathers are partly white. The name is also applied to other species of the same genus, found in Mexico, Central America, and the West Indies. — Mocking thrush (Zoöl.), any species of the genus Harporhynchus, as the brown thrush — Mocking wren (Zoöl.), any American wren of the genus Thryothorus, esp. T. Ludovicianus.

Mockingly
(Mock"ing*ly), adv. By way of derision; in a contemptuous or mocking manner.

Mockingstock
(Mock"ing*stock`) n. A butt of sport; an object of derision. [R.]

Mockish
(Mock"ish), a. Mock; counterfeit; sham. [Obs.]

Mockle
(Moc"kle) a. See Mickle.

Moco
(Mo"co) n. (Zoöl.) A South American rodent allied to the Guinea pig, but larger; — called also rock cavy.

Modal
(Mo"dal) a. [Cf. F. modal. See Mode.]

1. Of or pertaining to a mode or mood; consisting in mode or form only; relating to form; having the form without the essence or reality. Glanvill.

2. (Logic & Metaph.) Indicating, or pertaining to, some mode of conceiving existence, or of expressing thought.

Modalist
(Mo"dal*ist), n. (Theol.) One who regards Father, Son, and Spirit as modes of being, and not as persons, thus denying personal distinction in the Trinity. Eadie.

Modality
(Mo*dal"i*ty) n. [Cf. F. modalité.]

1. The quality or state of being modal.

2. (Logic & Metaph.) A modal relation or quality; a mode or point of view under which an object presents itself to the mind. According to Kant, the quality of propositions, as assertory, problematical, or apodeictic.

Modally
(Mo"dal*ly) adv. In a modal manner.

A compound proposition, the parts of which are united modally . . . by the particles "as" and "so."

Gibbs.

Mode
(Mode) n. [L. modus a measure, due or proper measure, bound, manner, form; akin to E. mete: cf. F. mode. See Mete, and cf. Commodious, Mood in grammar, Modus.]

1. Manner of doing or being; method; form; fashion; custom; way; style; as, the mode of speaking; the mode of dressing.

The duty of itself being resolved on, the mode of doing it may easily be found.

Jer. Taylor.

A table richly spread in regal mode.

Milton.