Mummy
['mʌmɪ] or ['mʌmi]
Definition
(noun.) a body embalmed and dried and wrapped for burial (as in ancient Egypt).
Editor: Xenia--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) 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.
(n.) Dried flesh of a mummy.
(n.) A gummy liquor that exudes from embalmed flesh when heated; -- formerly supposed to have magical and medicinal properties.
(n.) A brown color obtained from bitumen. See Mummy brown (below).
(n.) A sort of wax used in grafting, etc.
(n.) One whose affections and energies are withered.
(v. t.) To embalm; to mummify.
Checker: Max
Definition
n. a human body preserved by the Egyptian art of embalming in which wax spices &c. were employed: a kind of wax used in grafting: a brown pigment: (obs.) a medicinal gum.—v.t. to embalm and dry as a mummy:—pr.p. mumm′ying; pa.p. mumm′ied.—n. Mummificā′tion.—adj. Mumm′iform.—v.t. Mumm′ify to make into a mummy: to embalm and dry as a mummy:—pr.p. mumm′ifying; pa.p. mumm′ified.—ns. Mumm′y-case a case of wood or cartonnage for an Egyptian mummy; Munny-cloth the linen cloth in which a mummy was wrapped: a modern fabric resembling it used as a basis for embroidery: a fabric like crape for mourning-dress having a cotton or silk warp and woollen weft; Mumm′y-wheat a variety of wheat with compound spikes—Triticum compositum.
Checker: Micawber
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. An ancient Egyptian formerly in universal use among modern civilized nations as medicine and now engaged in supplying art with an excellent pigment. He is handy too in museums in gratifying the vulgar curiosity that serves to distinguish man from the lower animals.
Edited by Lizzie
Examples
- He is no better than a mummy! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Gyptian mummy! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Worcester says if I don't want to be beaten to a mummy by papa Beaufort I must go to Oxford in disguise. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Then a door opened at the far side of the chamber and a strange, dried up, little mummy of a man came toward me. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- A mummy again endued with animation could not be so hideous as that wretch. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Shall its mummy draw its portrait? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He had reserved what he considered to be his greatest wonder till the last--a royal Egyptian mummy, the best preserved in the world, perhaps. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- He unwrapped no mummies as Cambyses had done; he took no liberties with Apis, the sacred bull of Memphis. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Typist: Vance