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noun

Mummy n. (pl. mummies)

A dead body embalmed and dried after the manner of the ancient Egyptians; also, a body preserved, by any means, in a dry state, from the process of putrefaction.

Dried flesh of a mummy. (Obs.)

A gummy liquor that exudes from embalmed flesh when heated; formerly supposed to have magical and medicinal properties. (Obs.)

A brown color obtained from bitumen. See Mummy brown (below).

(Gardening) A sort of wax used in grafting, etc.

One whose affections and energies are withered.

Mummy brown, a brown color, nearly intermediate in tint between burnt umber and raw umber. A pigment of this color is prepared from bitumen, etc., obtained from Egyptian tombs.

Mummy wheat (Bot.), wheat found in the ancient mummy cases of Egypt. No botanist now believes that genuine mummy wheat has been made to germinate in modern times.

To beat to a mummy, to beat to a senseless mass; to beat soundly.

verb

Mummy v. t. (past & past part. mummied; pres. part. mummying) To embalm; to mummify.

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Etymology of 'Mummy'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Mummy" Quotes from Famous Books

... of their mind, that they may not be disclosed, and to shape the exteriors, which pertain to face and mouth, into an expression of sanctity. When such after death become spirits they appear encompassed with a cloud, in the midst of which is something black, like an Egyptian mummy. But as they are raised up as it were into the light of heaven, that bright cloud changes to a diabolical duskiness, not from any shining through it, but from a breathing through it, and the consequent ...

— Spiritual Life and the Word of God • Emanuel Swedenborg

... on as soundly as the mummy of Rameses. But suddenly he woke with a start. He had a confused idea that he had heard some one fumbling at his window. His sleepy eyes seemed to make out a face just disappearing from sight outside. He dismissed his suspicions as the manufactures ...

— The Dozen from Lakerim • Rupert Hughes

... child ceased to howl and put its jammy arms forgivingly about her while she wept, but its touch only reminded her how delicious it had been to beat it. Still, she submitted to its embrace, and muttered in abasement: "Oh, lovey, mummy ...

— The Judge • Rebecca West

... nails in my arm-chair) in a rather frightened manner, also moving the white membranes that formed its eyelids. Madame Theophile had never seen a parrot, and she regarded the creature with manifest surprise. While remaining as motionless as a cat mummy from Egypt in its swathing bands, she fixed her eyes upon the bird with a look of profound meditation, summoning up all the notions of natural history that she had picked up in the yard, in the garden, and on the roof. The shadow of her thoughts passed ...

— Concerning Cats - My Own and Some Others • Helen M. Winslow

... many of the arguments by which the permanence of species was supported came to nothing, and instanced some wheat which was said to have come off an Egyptian mummy, and was sent to him to prove that wheat had not changed since the time of the Pharaohs; but which proved to be made of French chocolate. Sir Joseph (then Dr.) Hooker spoke shortly, saying that he had found the hypothesis of Natural Selection so helpful in explaining the phenomena ...

— The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Volume 1 • Leonard Huxley

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