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MIM'IC

N / A

Mim"ic
  1. Imitative; mimetic.

    Oft, in her absence, mimic fancy wakes
    To imitate her.     Milton.

    Man is, of all creatures, the most mimical. W. Wotton.

  2. One who imitates or mimics, especially one who does so for sport; a copyist; a buffoon.

    Burke.
  3. To imitate or ape for sport] to ridicule by imitation.

    The walk, the words, the gesture, could supply,
    The habit mimic, and the mien belie.     Dryden.

  4. Consisting of, or formed by, imitation; imitated; as, mimic gestures.

    "Mimic hootings." Wordsworth.
  5. To assume a resemblance to (some other organism of a totally different nature, or some surrounding object), as a means of protection or advantage.

    Syn. -- To ape; imitate; counterfeit; mock.

  6. Imitative; characterized by resemblance to other forms; -- applied to crystals which by twinning resemble simple forms of a higher grade of symmetry.

    * Mimic often implies something droll or ludicrous, and is less dignified than imitative.

    Mimic beetle (Zoöl.), a beetle that feigns death when disturbed, esp. the species of Hister and allied genera.

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Mimic

MIM'IC

MIM'ICAL, adjective [Latin mimus, mimicus; Gr. to imitate.]

1. Imitative; inclined to imitate or to ape; having the practice or habit of imitating.

Man is of all creatures the most mimical in gestures, speech, etc.

2. Consisting of imitation; as mimic gestures.

Mimic implies often something droll or ludicrous, or less dignified than imitative.

MIM'IC, noun One who imitates or mimics; a buffoon who attempts to excite laughter or derision by acting or speaking in the manner of another.

1. A mean or servile imitator.

Of France the mimic and of Spain the prey.

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importance

IMPORT'ANCE, n.

1. Weight; consequence; a bearing on some interest; that quality of any thing by which it may affect a measure, interest or result. The education of youth is of great importance to a free government. A religious education is of infinite importance to every human being.

2. Weight or consequence in the scale of being.

Thy own importance know.

Nor bound thy narrow views to things below.

3. Weight or consequence in self-estimation.

He believes himself a man of importance.

4. Thing implied; matter; subject; importunity. [In these senses, obsolete.]

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train

TRAIN, v.t. [L. traho, to draw?]

1. To draw along.

In hollow cube he train'd

His devilish enginery.

2. Top draw; to entice; to allure.

If but twelve French

Were there in arms, they would be as a call

To train ten thousand English to their side.

3. To draw by artifice or stratagem.

O train me not, sweet mermaid,with thy note.

4. To draw from act to act by persuasion or promise.

We did train him on.

5. To exercise; to discipline; to teach and form by practice; as, to train the militia to the manual exercise; to train soldiers to the use of arms and to tactics. Abram armed his trained servants. Gen.14.

The warrior horse here bred he's taught to train.

6. To break, tame and accustom to draw; as oxen.

7. In gardening, to lead or direct and form to a wall or espalier; to form to a proper shape by growth, lopping or pruning; as, to train young trees.

8. In mining, to trace a lode or any mineral appearance to its head.

To train or train up, to educate; to teach; to form by instruction or practice; to bring up.

Train up a child in the way he should go,and when he is
old he will not depart from it. Prov.22.

The first christians were, by great hardships, trained

up for glory.

TRAIN, n. Artifice; stratagem of enticement.

Now to my charms,

And to my wily trains.

1. Something drawn along behind, the end of a gown, &c.; as the train of a gown or robe.

2. The tail of a fowl.

The train steers their flight, and turns their bodies,
like the rudder of a ship.

3. A retinue; a number of followers or attendants.

My train are men of choice and rarest parts.

The king;s daughter with a lovely train.

4. A series; a consecution or succession of connected things.

Rivers now stream and draw their humid train.

Other truths require a train of ideas placed in order.

--The train of ills our love would draw behind it.

5. Process; regular method; course. Things are now in a train for settlement.

If things were once in this train--our duty would take root in our nature.

6. A company in order; a procession.

Fairest of stars, last in the train of night.

7. The number of beats which a watch makes in any certain time.

8. A line of gunpowder, laid to lead fire to a charge, or to a quantity intended for execution.

Train of artillery, any number of cannon and mortars accompanying an army.

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