Crossword clues for mummy
mummy
- He's all wrapped up in himself
- Character at a wrap party?
- Wrapped movie monster
- Wrap party?
- Scary monster wrapped in bandages
- Old person?
- Mother (found in ancient Egypt?)
- Monster Mash, Part 4: Undead Egyptian From Another Planet
- King Tut, for one
- Embalmed corpse
- Charmin' costume?
- Brendan Fraser movie, with "The"
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mummy \Mum"my\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mummied; p. pr. & vb. n. Mummying.] To embalm; to mummify.
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.]
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.Dried flesh of a mummy. [Obs.]
--Sir. J. Hill.A gummy liquor that exudes from embalmed flesh when heated; -- formerly supposed to have magical and medicinal properties. [Obs.]
--Shak.
--Sir T. Herbert.A brown color obtained from bitumen. See Mummy brown (below).
(Gardening) A sort of wax used in grafting, etc.
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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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400, "medicine prepared from mummy tissue," from Medieval Latin mumia, from Arabic mumiyah "embalmed body," from Persian mumiya "asphalt," from mum "wax." Sense of "embalmed body" first recorded in English 1610s. Mummy wheat (1842) was said to be cultivated from grains found in mummy-cases.
1784, childish alteration of mammy. Alternative form mumsy attested by 1876.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 (context uncountable medicine now historical English) A substance used in medicine, prepared from mummified flesh. (from 14th c.) 2 (context now rare English) A pulp. (from 17th c.) 3 An embalmed corpse wrapped in linen bandages for burial, especially as practised by the ancient Egyptians. (from 17th c.) 4 Any naturally preserved human or animal body. (from 18th c.) 5 (context obsolete horticulture English) A sort of wax used in grafting. (18th c.) 6 (label en now rare) A brown pigment obtained from bitumen, also called ''mummy brown''. (from 19th c.) 7 Specifically, a reanimated embalmed human corpse, as a typical character in horror films. (from 20th c.) vb. (context dated transitive English) To mummify. Etymology 2
n. (context chiefly UK usually childish English) A child's term for '''mother'''.
WordNet
Wikipedia
A mummy is a deceased human or an animal whose skin and organs have been preserved by either intentional or accidental exposure to chemicals, extreme cold, very low humidity, or lack of air, so that the recovered body does not decay further if kept in cool and dry conditions. Some authorities restrict the use of the term to bodies deliberately embalmed with chemicals, but the use of the word to cover accidentally desiccated bodies goes back to at least 1615 AD (See the section Etymology and meaning).
Mummies of humans and other animals have been found on every continent, both as a result of natural preservation through unusual conditions, and as cultural artifacts. Over one million animal mummies have been found in Egypt, many of which are cats.
In addition to the well-known mummies of ancient Egypt, deliberate mummification was a feature of several ancient cultures in areas of America and Asia with very dry climates. The Spirit Cave mummies of Fallon, Nevada in North America were accurately dated at more than 9,400 years old. Before this discovery, the oldest known deliberate mummy is a child, one of the Chinchorro mummies found in the Camarones Valley, Chile, which dates around 5050 BCE. The oldest known naturally mummified human corpse is a severed head dated as 6,000 years old, found in 1936 CE at the site named Inca Cueva No. 4 in South America.
A mummy is an unusually well preserved corpse.
Mummy or The Mummy may also refer to:
A mummy, in the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game, is an undead creature whose corpse has been mummified and animated, often through the power of an evil god of the Egyptian pantheon such as Set.
Usage examples of "mummy".
The group left for the sphinx room so that Cardona could see the mummy case that had once been in the adytum of the Ammon temple.
So it is here that we find extraordinarily well-preserved mummies, for example, and an ancient mud brick pueblo, Aldea de Tulor, that dates to about 800 BC.
My first experiences in Egypt, pursuing mummies and climbing up and down cliffs, had convinced me that trailing skirts and tight corsets were a confounded nuisance in that ambience For many years my working costume had consisted of pith helmet and shirtwaist, boots, and Turkish trousers, or bloomers.
It is out of the idolatrous dotings of the old Egyptians upon broiled ibis and roasted river horse, that you see the mummies of those creatures in their huge bakehouses the pyramids.
You looked for no weapon of opposition but spit, poker, and basting ladle, wielded by unskilful hands: but, rascals, here is short sword and long cudgel in hands well tried in war, wherewith you shall be drilled into cullenders and beaten into mummy.
The earthen plates covered with hieroglyphics still lay beside the mummy, and round it, carefully arranged at the points of the compass, stood the four jars with the heads of the hawk, the jackal, the cynocephalus, and man, the jars in which were placed the hair, the nail parings, the heart, and other special portions of the body.
I do not mean the oldest and driest mummies, of course, but the fresher ones.
Sir Lionel to be absent, locked himself in here to rifle the mummy case, for Croxted, entering by way of the window, found the key on the inside.
Even after Evermore had explained about mummies and ancient funeral practices the sysop waited a moment longer for a punch line she was sure was coming, but whose outlines she could not yet discern.
As soon as ever a mummy had burnt down to the ankles, which it did in about twenty minutes, the feet were kicked away, and another one put in its place.
I remember reading about an examination of Egyptian mummies, where the pathologists were able to perform histological sections, after rehydrating the hardened tissues with sodium carbonate.
They wrapped in the felts designed for storms until, from a distance, they might well have seemed to be a straggling column of mummies, bandages peeling, staggering and lurching from their inquiet sleep.
Parent-Parent in that they proceed without the benefit of reality data and are the same kind of judgemental exchange these ladies, as children, overheard between their mummies and aunties over the vicissitudes of riding streetcars.
Were the humanoids allied with the undead, given that a pyramid ship-long known to be an abode for mummies, liches, and other perversions-traveled in their fleet with them?
Rameses with Menkau-Ra, the Mohar, chief of the House of War and mightiest of all the warriors of the Land of Khem, now that Rameses had passed from the black banks of the Nile to the shores of Amenti, and his mummy was waiting the summons of the High Gods which should recall it to life in the fulness of time and the dawn of the Everlasting Peace.