'Mock sun' definitions:

Definition of 'mock sun'

From: WordNet
noun
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]

Definition of 'Mock sun'

From: GCIDE
  • Mock \Mock\, a. Imitating reality, but not real; false; counterfeit; assumed; sham. [1913 Webster]
  • That superior greatness and mock majesty. --Spectator. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]