mummy

4 definitions found

mummy - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Mummy \Mum"my\ (m[u^]m"m[y^]), n.; pl. Mummies
     (m[u^]m"m[i^]z). [F. momie; cf. Sp. & Pg. momia, It. mummia;
     all fr. Per. m[=u]miy[=a], fr. m[=u]m wax.]
     1. 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. --Bacon.
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     2. Dried flesh of a mummy. [Obs.] --Sir. J. Hill.
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     3. A gummy liquor that exudes from embalmed flesh when
        heated; -- formerly supposed to have magical and medicinal
        properties. [Obs.] --Shak. --Sir T. Herbert.
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     4. A brown color obtained from bitumen. See Mummy brown
        (below).
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     5. (Gardening) A sort of wax used in grafting, etc.
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     6. One whose affections and energies are withered.
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     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.
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  Mummy \Mum"my\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mummied; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Mummying.]
     To embalm; to mummify.
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mummy - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  mummy
      n 1: informal terms for a mother [syn: ma, mama, mamma,
           mom, momma, mommy, mammy, mum, mummy]
      2: a body embalmed and dried and wrapped for burial (as in
         ancient Egypt)

mummy - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  62 Moby Thesaurus words for "mummy":
     ashes, biscuit, body, bone, bones, cadaver, carcass, carrion, clay,
     corpse, corpus delicti, cracker, crowbait, dam, dead body,
     dead man, dead person, decedent, dry bones, dry up, dust, earth,
     embalmed corpse, food for worms, foster mother, genetrix,
     late lamented, ma, mam, mama, mammy, mater, materfamilias,
     maternal ancestor, matriarch, mom, mommy, mortal remains, mother,
     mummification, mummify, old lady, organic remains, parchment,
     relics, reliquiae, remains, shrivel, skeleton, stepmother, stick,
     stiff, tenement of clay, the dead, the deceased, the defunct,
     the departed, the loved one, the old woman, welter, wilt, wizen