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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'

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"Mummy" Quotes from Famous Books

... 2.—Water-colour sketch by Mrs. Cecil Firth, representing a restoration of the early mummy found at Medum by Professor Flinders Petrie, now in the Museum of the Royal College of ...

— The Evolution of the Dragon • G. Elliot Smith

... the brave heart standing over his prostrate prisoner, and rolling him, mummy fashion, in his own tunic and a rug ...

— Long Live the King • Mary Roberts Rinehart

... did not end with that, sir," the major replied with a gesture of repulsion. "There was a gruesome, ghastly, appalling addition in the shape of two mummy cases—one empty, the other filled. A parchment accompanying these stated that the caliph could not sleep elsewhere but in the land of his fathers, nor sleep there until his beloved child rested beside him. They had been parted in life, but they should not be parted in death. An Egyptian ...

— Cleek, the Master Detective • Thomas W. Hanshew

... more careful in future. "You are," said the captain, "like a young bear; all your sorrows are before you; if you give a blow for every hard name you receive, your fate in the service may be foreseen: if weak you will be pounded to a mummy—if strong, you will be hated. A quarrelsome disposition will make you enemies in every rank you may attain; you will be watched with a jealous eye, well knowing, as we all do, that the same spirit of insolence and overbearing which you show in the cockpit, will follow you ...

— Frank Mildmay • Captain Frederick Marryat

... of allied berries was used of old by ladies of fashion in the land of the Pharaohs, as discovered among the mummy graves by Professor Baeyer, of Munich. This had the property of imparting a verdant sheen to the human iris; and, perhaps by the quaint colour-effect it produced on the transparent cornea of some wily Egyptian belle, it gave rise to the saying, ...

— Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure • William Thomas Fernie

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