MUMMY
\mˈʌmi], \mˈʌmi], \m_ˈʌ_m_i]\
Definitions of MUMMY
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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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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Dried flesh of a mummy.
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A brown color obtained from bitumen. See Mummy brown (below).
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A sort of wax used in grafting, etc.
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One whose affections and energies are withered.
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To embalm; to mummify.
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A gummy liquor that exudes from embalmed flesh when heated; - formerly supposed to have magical and medicinal properties.
By Oddity Software
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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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Dried flesh of a mummy.
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A sort of wax used in grafting, etc.
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One whose affections and energies are withered.
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To embalm; to mummify.
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A gummy liquor that exudes from embalmed flesh when heated; - formerly supposed to have magical and medicinal properties.
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A brown color obtained from bitumen. See brown (below).
By Noah Webster.
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Bodies preserved either by the ancient Egyptian technique or due to chance under favorable climatic conditions.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A dead body embalmed by a drying process, after the manner of the ancient Egyptians; a rich brown color.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A human body preserved by the Egyptian art of embalming, in which wax, spices, etc., were employed.
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To embalm and dry as a mummy:-pr.p. mummying; pa.p. mummied.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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A dead body simply dried, or dried after having been embalmed. The latter acceptation is the most common. Formerly, the Egyptian mummy was extolled as useful in contusion. It was presumed, also, to have healing, tonic, and resolvent properties. It is now only regarded as an archaical curiosity.
By Robley Dunglison
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