Dictionary Entry

mimic

Part of SpeechnounPronunciation/ˈmɪm.ɪk/Used In Literature ↓

A person who practices mimicry, or mime.

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Common Phrases

. mimicmen mimic

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Poetry examples for “mimic”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

Or blend in beauteous tints the colour'd mass,
And from the canvas call the mimic face:
Read these instructive leaves, in which conspire

And, by my interest, Cozens made her stays.
Ungrateful wretch! with mimic airs grown pert,
She dares to steal my favourite lover's heart.

Here, where a hero fell, a column falls!
Here, where the mimic eagle glared in gold,
A midnight vigil holds the swarthy bat!

But see, amid the mimic rout
A crawling shape intrude!

And down the wet streets
Sail their mimic fleets,
Till the treacherous pool

When showers fell on thy many coloured shade
And when dark tempests mimic thunder made--
While darkness came as it would strangle light

Princes do but play us; compared to this,
All honour's mimic, all wealth alchemy.
Thou, Sun, art half as happy as we,

Nor even his Pacha's turbaned band
Mix in the game of mimic slaughter,
Careering cleave the folded felt[142]

Ah! yonder see the Tchocadar,[151]
My father leaves the mimic war; 450
I tremble now to meet his eye--

At least in many things, I think, I see
His lunar, and our mimic world agree.
Both shine at night, for, but at Foote’s alone,