(archaic) To ridicule or mock. / (transitive) To mock repeatedly; flout. / (transitive) To cause to appear as if mock or unreal; excel or surpass, as the genuine surpasses the counterfeit.

(intransitive) To become wood. / (intransitive, botany) To develop woody tissue as a result of incrustation of lignin during secondary growth.

Of or pertaining to biorhythms.

plural of Goates