'Mummy' definitions:
Definition of 'mummy'
From: WordNet
Definition of 'Mummy'
From: GCIDE
Definition of 'Mummy'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Dried flesh of a mummy. [Obs.] --Sir. J. Hill. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A gummy liquor that exudes from embalmed flesh when heated; -- formerly supposed to have magical and medicinal properties. [Obs.] --Shak. --Sir T. Herbert. [1913 Webster]
- 4. A brown color obtained from bitumen. See Mummy brown (below). [1913 Webster]
- 5. (Gardening) A sort of wax used in grafting, etc. [1913 Webster]
- 6. One whose affections and energies are withered. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'mummy'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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