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Mock nightingale

資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Mock \Mock\, a.
   Imitating reality, but not real; false; counterfeit; assumed;
   sham.

         That superior greatness and mock majesty. --Spectator.

   {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} (Zo["o]l.), the European blackcap.

   {Mock orange} (Bot.), a genus of American and Asiatic shrubs
      ({Philadelphus}), with showy white flowers in panicled
      cymes. {P. 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}.

Nightingale \Night"in*gale\, n. [OE. nihtegale,nightingale, AS.
   nihtegale; niht night + galan to sing, akin to E. yell; cf.
   D. nachtegaal, OS. nahtigala, OHG. nahtigala, G. nachtigall,
   Sw. n["a]ktergal, Dan. nattergal. See {Night}, and {Yell}.]
   1. (Zo["o]l.) A small, plain, brown and gray European song
      bird ({Luscinia luscinia}). It sings at night, and is
      celebrated for the sweetness of its song.

   2. (Zo["o]l.) A larger species ({Lucinia philomela}), of
      Eastern Europe, having similar habits; the thrush
      nightingale. The name is also applied to other allied
      species.

   {Mock nightingale}. (Zo["o]l.) See {Blackcap}, n., 1
      (a) .
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