Crossword clues for mummies
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Wiktionary
n. (mummy English)
Usage examples of "mummies".
Merton believes the gradualists in charge of the mummies have at most another two or three months to prepare their reports and make them public, or they ‘II be removed, replaced, Brock hopes, by a a more objective team, and clearly he hopes to be in charge.
She’s found three skeletons, very old, not nearly as remarkable as your mummies, but still quite interesting.
Your mummies violate everything known in anthropology and archaeology.
Innsbruck, as it turned out, sent a set of samples of all three mummies to Maria Konig in the same department.
Because of the mummies in the Alps, we know SHEVA was active in humans who were producing new kinds of babies.
Brock believes the mummies represent the first clear evidence of a human speciation event,” Merton said, hoping to move things along.
Mitch is writing more slowly than I am, about the mummies and the cave, sending it page by page to Oliver Merton in New York, who is editing it, sometimes a little cruelly.
They’re going to treat the three mummies as a family group, related genetically.
The mummies and the black hair on their skulls were in a remarkable state of preservation.
The two mummies at the end sat on stone chairs elaborately carved with various species of sea life.
Though all the mummies had worn their hair long in life, it was a matter of simple deduction to tell the males from the females.
The mummies were coated with a little dust, but other than that they're as sound as the day they were propped up.
Floodlights lit the crypt even brighter than sunlight, revealing the mummies and their garments in colorful detail.
Whatever their embalming methods, these people's techniques were far superior to that found in mummies I've studied in Egypt.
He turned and walked behind the stone chairs still holding the mummies and stared at a large curtain of sewn animal hides that covered the far wall.