mock sun

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mock sun - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Mock \Mock\, a.
     Imitating reality, but not real; false; counterfeit; assumed;
     sham.
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           That superior greatness and mock majesty. --Spectator.
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     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 - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  mock sun
      n 1: a bright spot on the parhelic circle; caused by diffraction
           by ice crystals; "two or more parhelia are usually seen at
           once" [syn: parhelion, mock sun, sundog]