MUMMY


Meaning of MUMMY in English

noun dried flesh of a mummy.

2. mummy ·noun a sort of wax used in grafting, ·etc.

3. mummy ·noun one whose affections and energies are withered.

4. mummy ·noun a brown color obtained from bitumen. ·see mummy brown (below).

5. mummy ·vt to embalm; to mummify.

6. mummy ·noun a gummy liquor that exudes from embalmed flesh when heated;

— formerly supposed to have magical and medicinal properties.

7. mummy ·noun 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.

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