mock sun : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: mock sun	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for mock sun
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
mock sun n a bright spot on the parhelic circle; caused by diffraction by ice crystals; "two or more parhelia are usually seen at once" Synonym(s): parhelion, mock sun, sundog
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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[94]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}.