mummery 
mummery unnm'(T-i). .; pi. /imTir.v (-!/.). 
[Formerly also nuniiiiici'i/ ; < <)K. iiHnitni/rit, K. 
tmnitt'i'ic (= Sp. annul i'i ~ 1). moiinnt'i'ij = <!. 
mumiiirrri = Dim. minium ri), mummery, < IHO- 
i<r, ilium, i;o a mnminiii";: sec muni'-. ] 1. 1'sin- 
tomime M enacted l>\ mummers; ashoworper- 
fonnanco of mummers. 
Vour futile^ 
lliwdain'il tin- iHiniiini ni <if foreign stroller*. t-'i-uti>u. 
This festival [of fools) was a reliuioiiH niuniiiitri/, usually 
In-Ill itt Christmas time. 
Struct, Sports and Pastimes, p. 308. 
2. A ceremony or performance considered false 
or pretentious; farcical show ; hypocritical dis- 
guise and parade: applied in contempt to vari- 
ous religious ceremonies by people who are of 
other sects or beliefs. 
The temple and its holy rid s prf:m'd 
Hy iiiinnin'rie* he that dwelt in it dimlain'il. 
L'ltifper, Expostulation, 1. 145. 
But for what we know of Eleusis and its mttmweritx, 
which is quite enough for all practical purposes, we are 
indebted to none of you ancients, but entirely to modern 
sagacity. De (Juincey, Secret Societies, i. 
mumniet (mum'et), . [Perhaps a dial, cor- 
ruption of noimmeat( ME. noncmete): see quot.] 
Luncheon. [Local, Eng.] 
This nonemete which seems to have been a meal in lieu 
uf a nap is still the wur<l by which luncheon was called 
at Bristol in my childhood, but corrupted into mmnmet. 
Suuthey. 
mummiat (mum'i-a), . [ML.: see mummy. ~\ 
Same as mummy 1 , ii. 
Hee supposed that Mum nun was made of such as the 
sands had surprised and buried quirk : but the truer Mum- 
7/u'a is made of embalmed bodies of men, as they yse to 
doe in Egypt. Purchat, Pilgrimage, p. 230. 
Your followers 
Have swallowed you like roummia. 
Webster, White Devil, L 1. 
murainick (nmm'ik), v. t. [Cf. mommick.'} To 
eat awkwardly and with distaste. [Prov. Eng. 
and local U. S.] 
mummied (raum'id), /). u. Mummified. The 
Academy, No. 891, p. 383. 
mummification (inum'i-fi-ka'shou), n. [= F. 
uitiinification; as mummify + -anon.] 1. The 
process of mummifying, or making into a mum- 
my. 2. In pnthol., dry gangrene. See gan- 
greae, 1. 
mummiform (inum'i-fdrm), . [< mummy 1 + 
L. forma, form.] Resembling a mummy: ap- 
plied in entomology to the nymphs of certain 
Lepicloiitera. 
mummify (mum'i-fi), v. t.; pret. and pp. mum- 
mified, ppr. nt n minifying. [= F. momifier; as 
mil m in y 1 + -fy,] To make into a mummy; em- 
balm and dry as a mummy; hence, to dry, or 
to preserve by drying. 
Thou art far 
More richly laid, and shalt more long remain 
Still mummified within the hearts of men. 
John Hall, Poems (1646), p. 50. 
There had been brought back to France numerous mutn- 
ni : it'll corpses of the animals which the ancient Egyptians 
revered and preserved. Uuxley, Amer. Addresses, p. :&. 
mumming (mum'iug), . [< ME. >II</I>IIIII/H</: 
verbal n. of mitmV, fl.J The sports of mummers ; 
masking or masquerade. 
That no maner of personne, of whate degree or condlclon 
that they be of, at no tytne this Christmas goo &nwiinnii/i</ 
with cloce visagcd. English <Jiltls(E. E. T. S.X p. 427. 
She had borrowed the suit under pretence she meant to 
pluy in sonic uuwiininy or rural masquerade. 
Scott, Monastery, \\i\. 
" Disgnisings" and " unimniinnx," i. e. dances or other 
appearances in costume, no doubt often of a figurative 
description, were in vogue at Court from the time of Ed- 
ward III. A. W. Ward, Eng. Dram. Lit, I. 82. 
limmmock (mum'ok), H. [Var. of mammock. 
('I. iiiniiiiiii<-/,-.] An old coat fit to put on a scare- 
crow. 
1 haven't a rag or a tttiinniifH-k 
To fetch me a chop or a steak : 
I wish that the coats of my stomach 
Were such as my uncle would take. T. Hood. 
mummy 1 (mum'i), .; pi. mummies (-iz). [For- 
merly also ninmniir. mummec; in late MK. mu- 
inifii, iiini/ii/iiii (<lef. U); = D. G. Sw. Dan. n/iniiii'. 
< OF. iunii(. F. momie = Sp. Pg. momiti = It. 
in ii in in in. < JIli. miiiiiiii, momiii, iiiiininiid = NGr. 
m>r//m=Turk. inuniii/d = PeTS. iMii'i/<i(>Hind. 
iiuiHiiutii), ;i mummy (Hind, also a medicine), < 
Ar. in Ti in ii/a, pi. moirdmi, an embalmed body, a 
mummy. < iiii'iin (> Pers. ilium, > Hind, mom), 
wax (used in embalming); cf. Coptic iiiinii. 
bitumen, gum-resin.] 1. A dead liumau body 
embalmed and dried after the manner of the 
ancient Egyptian preparation for burial. An im- 
mense number of mnmmie.s are found in Egypt. consi>t- 
inir not only of human bodie*. 'tut of tlmsc of various ani- 
Hu.nl of Mummy of Suti I., father 
of K.uiieses II. 
3897 
mals, as bulls, apei, ibises, crocodiles, llsh, etc. The pro- 
cesses of embalming bodies were very various. The bodies 
of the poorer classes were 
merely dried with salt or 
natron, and wrapped up 
in course cloths. Those 
of the rich and the great 
underwent the most cum 
plicated operations, and 
"'!< laltoriontdy adorn- 
ed with various oina 
ments. The embalmers 
il the brain 
tlnoiik'h the nostrils, and 
the entrails through an 
H in the side. The 
In nly was then shaved 
and washed, the belly 
tilled with perfumes, and 
the whole body covered 
with natron, and steeped 
in the same material for 
seventy days. After this 
the corpse was washed, 
treated with balsam or 
nib' i antiseptics, and 
then wrapped up In linen bandages, sometimes to the mini 
ber of twenty thicknesses. The body was then put into an 
ornamented case of wood or cartonnage. Sometimes the 
cases were double. The term mummy is likewise used of 
human bodies preserved in other ways, either by artificial 
preparation or by accident. The Ouanches, or ancient 
people of the Canaries, embalmed their dead in a simple 
but effectual manner. In some situations the conditions 
of the soil and atmosphere, by the rapidity with which they 
permit the drying of the animal tissues, are alone sufficient 
for the preservation of the body with the general charac- 
teristics of a mummy. This is the case in some parts 
of South America, especially at Arica (formerly in Peru), 
where considerable numbers of bodies have been found 
quite dry, in pits dug in a dry saline soil. In some places 
natural mummies are occasionally found in caverns or 
in crypts, as In a well-known church-crypt in Bordeaux, 
France. Natural mummies of various animals are often 
found in such state of preservation as to allow of scien- 
tific description of many of their parts. 
An imposture perhaps contrived by the Water-men, who, 
fetching them [tnearmsand legs]from the Mummca, . . . 
do stick them over-night in the sand. 
Sandys, Travalles, p. 99. 
2f. The substance of a mummy; a medicinal 
preparation supposed to consist of the sub- 
stance of mummies or of dead bodies; hence, 
a medicinal liquor or gum in general. Also 
mummia. See first quotation under mummia. 
Mummy hath great force In stanching blood, which may 
be ascribed to the mixture of balms that are glutinous. 
Bacon, Nat. Hist., ( 980. 
'Tls true ; there's magic in the web of it : ... 
And it was dyed in mummy which the skilful 
Conserved of maidens' hearts. 
Shak., Othello, ill. 4. 74. 
Make mummy of my flesh, and sell me to the apothe- 
caries. Shirley, Bird in a Cage, 1. 1. 
In or near this place is a precious liquor or mummy 
growing; . . . a moist, redolent gum it is, sovereign against 
poisons. Sir T. Herbert, Travels in Africa, p. 124. 
Mininini is said to have been first brought into use in 
medicine by the malice of a Jewish physician, who wrote 
that flesh thus embalmed was good for the cure of divers 
diseases, and particularly bruises, to prevent the blood's 
gathering and coagulating. Chambers'! Cyc., 1738. 
3. In Inn-/., a kind of wax used in grafting and 
planting trees. 4. A brown color prepared 
from the asphalt taken from Egyptian mum- 
mies, and used as an oil-color by artists. It re- 
sembles asphaltum in ita general qualities, and has the ad- 
vantage of being less liable to crack. It was supposed 
that the asphalt taken from the Egyptian mummies made 
the finest color. ITre, Diet, III. 361. To beat to a mum- 
my, to beat soundly, or till insensible. 
mummy 1 (mum'i), i'. t. ; pret. and pp. mummied, 
ppr.miimii/in<i. [< mummy*. .] To embalm; 
mummify. Encyc. Brit., XVII. 21. 
mummy 2 (mum'i), .; pi. mummiex (-iz). [Short 
for mummychog.'] A mummychog. Massachu- 
mump 
Mummy-case of Kha-Hor, between two others. Boutak Museum. 
Cairo, 
setts Fisheries Report for 1872, p. 51. 
mummy-case (mum'i-kas), n. In Egyptian ar- 
l., a case of wood or cartonnage in which a 
mummy was inclosed, having as nearly as pos- 
sible the shape of the mummy, and carved and 
painted so as to represent the dead person. 
The mummy-cases of the rich were often very elaborately 
painted and inlaid, and were inclosed in a second or outer 
case of wood, or a sarcophagus of stone, the latter being 
sometimes also of the form of the mummy, but more fre- 
quently rectangular. See cut in next column. 
mummychog (nium'i-chog), . [Amer. Ind. 
mi/mm<i<-lto{/.~\ A salt-water minnow, the com- 
Mutmnychog {f-'mtjulus M<V'O/U). 
mon killifisli. t'liiiiliiliin In ti riK'litus ; also, one of 
numerous other small cvprinodonts. killifishes 
or top-minnows. See l:ill(li.tli. Also written 
mumnuiclioi/, mummit'lioy, mammichtiy, inammy- 
cli ui/. 
mummy-cloth (mum'i-kloth), . 1. Cloth in 
which mummies are enveloped, a fabric as to 
the material of which there is some dispute, but 
which is generally admitted to be linen. 2. 
A modern textile fabric made to some extent 
in imitation of the ancient fabric, and used 
especially as a foundation for embroidery. 3. 
A fabric resembling crape, having the warp of 
either cotton or silk and the weft of woolen : 
used for mourning when black on account of its 
lusterless surface. Also ntotiiie-cloth. 
mummy-wheat (mum'i-hwet), n. A variety of 
wheat, originally considered a distinct species, 
Triticum compositum, cultivated in Egypt and 
Abyssinia, and to some extent elsewhere. It has 
been raised from grains found in mummy-cases probably 
placed there, however, by fraud. 
mump 1 (mump), r. [< D. mompen, mump, cheat ; 
a strengthened form of mommrn, mumble: see 
mxnti, r. The Goth, bi-mantpjan, deride, in 
perhaps ult. related. In part perhaps associ- 
ated with munch, aa crump 3 with crunch, liumji 
with hunch, lumpl with lunch, etc. Hence 
mttmpg.] I. iiitrann. 1. To mumble or mutter, 
as in sulkiness. 
And when he's crost or sullen any way, 
He untinim, and lowres, and hangs the lip, they say. 
John Taylor, Works (1(130). (Saret.) 
When they come with their counterfeit looks, and mump- 
ing tones, think them players. Lamb, Decay of Beggars. 
2. To nibble; chew; munch, or move the jaw 
as if munching. 
Aged iniinipin'i beldames. A'o*A, Terrors of the Night. 
Spend but a quarter so much time in mumping upon 
Gahrielism. 
Kath, Dedication to Haue with you to Saffron- W'alden. 
3. To chatter; make mouths; grin like an ape. 
TIT. The tailor will run mad upon my life for X 
Ped. How he mumps and bridles; he will ne'r cut clothes 
again. Fletcher and Rotrley, Maid In the Mill, ill. 1. 
4. To implore alms in a low muttering tone; 
play the beggar; hence, to deceive; practise 
imposture. 
And then went mumping with a sore leg, . . . canting 
and whining. Bvrkt. 
Doubtless his church will be no hospital 
For superannuate forms and mumpiwj shams. 
LauxU, The Cathedral. 
II. trans. 1. To utter with a low, indistinct 
voice ; chatter unintelligibly. 
Who mump their passion, and who, grimly smiling, 
still thus address the fair with voice beguiling. 
(rMtim'th, Epilogue Spoken by Mrs. Buckley and 
[Mln Cetley. 
2. To munch; chew: as, to mump food. 
She sunk to the earth as dead as a doore naile, and 
never mnmpt crust after. Kathe, Lenten Stuff e. 
3. To overreach. 
What, yon laugh, I warrant, to think how the young 
Baggage and you will mump the poor old Father : but if 
all her Dependence for a Fortune be upon the Father, he 
may chance to mump you both and spoil the Jest 
Wycheruy, Gentleman Dancing-Master, ill. 1. 
mump 2 (mump), H. [Origin obscure.] 1. A 
protuberance: a lump. [Prov. Eng.] 2. Any 
great knotty piece of wood; a root. //</" 
[Prov. Eng.] 
