To speak ill of someone; to defame someone.
To extort money or favors from (a person) by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, such as injury to reputation, distress of mind, false accusation, etc.
The extortion of money or favours by threats of public accusation, exposure, or censure.
Black rent, or rent paid in corn, meat, or the lowest coin, as opposed to white rent, which was paid in silver.
Compromising material that can be used to extort someone, dirt.
To imitate, especially in order to ridicule.
To take on the appearance of another, for protection or camouflage.
An imitation.
A comic who does impressions.
An entity that mimics another entity, such as a disease that resembles another disease in its signs and symptoms; see the great imitator.
A mime.
Imitative; characterized by resemblance to other forms; applied to crystals which by twinning resemble simple forms of a higher grade of symmetry.
Pertaining to mimicry; imitative.
Mock, pretended.