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of mummy, in its liquid ftate, is a thick, opaque, and vif- 
eous, fluid, of a blackilh colour, but not difagreeable 
fmell. In its indurated ftate, it is a dry folid fubftance, 
of a fine fliining black colour, and clofe texture, eaiily 
broken, and of a good fmell; very inflammable, and yield¬ 
ing a fcent of myrrh and aromatic ingredients while burn¬ 
ing. This, if we cannot be content without medicines 
from our own bodies, ought to be the mummy ufed in the 
fliops ; but it is very fcarce and dear; while the other is 
fo cheap, that it will always be raoft in ufe. 
All thefe kinds of mummies are brought from Egypt. 
But we are not to imagine, that any body breaks up the 
real Egyptian mummies, to fell them in pieces to the 
druggifts, as they make a much better market of them in 
Europe whole, when they can contrive to get them. 
What our druggifts are l'upplied with, is the flcfli of exe¬ 
cuted criminals, or of any other bodies the Jews can get, 
who fill them with the common bitumen, fo plentiful in 
that part of the world ; and, adding a little aloes, and two 
•or three other cheap ingredients, fend them to be baked in 
an oven, till the juices are exhaled, and the embalming 
matter has penetrated fo thoroughly that the flefti will 
keep and bear tranfporting into Europe. Mummy has 
been efteemed refolvent and balfamic; but whatever vir¬ 
tues have been attributed to it, feem to be fuch as depend 
more upon the ingredients ufed in preparing theflefli than 
in the fiefli itfelf; and it would furely be better to give 
thofe ingredients without fo fhocking an addition. Hill's 
■Mat. Med. 
There are found in Poland a kind of natural mummies, 
or human bodies preferved without the afliftance of art. 
Thefe lie in confiderable numbers in fome of the vaft ca¬ 
serns in that country. They are dried with the flefli and 
fki n ftirunk up almoft clofe to the bones, and are of a blackilh 
colour. In the wars which feveral ages ago laid wafte that 
country, it was common for parties of the weaker fide to 
retire into thefe caves, where their enemies, if they found 
them out, fuffocated them by burning ftraw, &c. at the 
mouth of the cavern, and then left the bodies ; which, 
being out of the way of injuries from common accidents, 
■have lain there ever fince. 
Parseus has a very curious treatife of mummies, in which 
he fliows the abufes of them ; and makes it appear, that 
they can never be of any real medicinal ufe. Matthiolus 
is of the fame opinion, after Serapion. Both thefe authors 
take even the Egyptian mummies to be no more than bo¬ 
dies embalmed with piflafphaltum. Chambers. 
Mummy is alfo ufed, among gardeners, for a fort of wax 
ufed in the planting and grafting of trees. Agricola di- 
refts the preparation of it as follows: Take one pound of 
common black pitch, and a quarter of a pound of common 
turpentine ; put them together in an earthen pot, and fet 
them on fire in the open air, having a cover ready to quench 
the mixture in time: the matter is to be thus alternately 
lighted and quenched, till all the nitrous and volatile 
•parts be evaporated. To this a little common wax is to 
be added ; and the compofition is then to be fet by for 
ufe. To apply it in the drefling of roots of trees, melt it, 
and dip in the two ends of the pieces of root, one after 
another; then put them in water, and plant them in the 
earth, the fmall end downward, fo that the larger may 
appear a little way out of the earth, and fo may have the 
benefit of the air; then prefs the earth hard down upon 
them, that they may not receive too much wet. 
To beat to a Mummy. To beat foundly. Ainfwortli. 
To MUMP, v. a. [mompelen , Teut. mund , Germ, the 
mouth ; mum fa, Su. from mun, q. d. munfa, to work with 
the mouth. Serenius.’] To nibble; to bite quick; to chew 
with a continued motion : 
Let him not pry nor liften. 
Nor frifk about the houle 
Like a tame mumping fquirrel with a bell on. Otway. 
TTo talk low and quick.—[In cant language.] To beg. 
Ainfworth. —To deceive 3 to choufe.—I’m refolved here- 
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after to bend my thoughts wholly for the fervice of the 
nurfery, and mump your proud players ! D. of Bucking¬ 
ham's Rehearfnl. —He watches then like a younger brother, 
that is afraid to be mump'd of his fnip. Wycherley's Love 
in a Wood. 
'To MUMP, v. 71. To chatter; to make mouths; to gnn 
like an ape.—The ghoft knocks ; Harlequin opens the 
door; and, feeing the apparition, runs backward in a 
fright, whips up a dilli of vermicelli, with which he re¬ 
treats under the table : the ghoft enters, fits down at ta¬ 
ble, talks to Don John, while Harlequin mumps below, 
with fuch buffoonery as excites the mirth of the whole 
audience. Drummond's Travels. 
Thou world of marmofets and mumping apes, 
Unmafke ; put off thy feigned, borrowed, fhapes. Maijlon. 
To implore notice by making a face of diftrefs ; to beg 
with a falfe pretence. A cant word. —They had no way 
left for getting rid of this mendicant perfeverance, but by 
fending for the beadle, and forcibly driving our embally 
of lhreds and patches, with all its mumping cant, from the 
inhofpitable door of cannibal caftle. Burke on a Regicide 
Peace. 
MUM'PER, f. [In cant language.] A beggar. 
MUM'PING, J'. Fooiilh tricks; afts of mockery. Sher¬ 
wood. —-Begging tricks.—-Their own mumpings, and beg¬ 
garly tones, while they pretend to lpeak in Plutarch’s 
voice. Bentley's Phil. Lipf. 
MUM'PISH, adj. Sullen. 
MUM'PISHNESS, f. Sullennefs. 
MUM'RAH, a town of Bengal: thirty-eight miles 
north-north-weft of Midnapour. 
MUMPS, /! [niompelen, Dut.] Sullennefs; filent anger. 
Skinner. —The lquinancy. Dr. Johnfon from Awfwoi'th .— 
It is properly a fwelling of the glands about the throat, 
and the jaws ; [perhaps from rriuns, the mouth. Todd .}—• 
The difeafe refembled the mumps, or fwelling of the chaps. 
White's Journ. of a Voy. to N. South Wales. 
MUN. Muft. See Mowe. Ufed in the north of Eng¬ 
land. “ l mun gang; thou munnot gang:” i. e. I muft, 
thou muft not, go. 
MUNA'RI (Pellegrino), a painter who had the hap- 
pinefs to be fcholar and afliftant to Raphael, in executing 
the works for the chambers of the Vatican. Being born 
at Modena, he moft ufually bore the name of Pellegrino 
da Modena. He pofleffed confiderable talents; and, ac¬ 
cording to M. Fufeli, refembled his mafter more than any 
of his contemporaries in the airs of his heads, and the 
graces of attitudes: but he lived too lhort a time to have 
much to teftify the truth of this aflertion, dying at the 
early age of thirty-eight, in the year 1523. 
MUNCAR'A, a town of Bengal: fix miles fouth of 
Coffimbazar. 
MUN'CER (Thomas), a famous fanatic, was born at 
Zwickaw, a town of Mifnia, in Germany, probably to¬ 
wards the clofe of the fifteenth century. He was edu¬ 
cated to the church ; and became a difciple of Luther, 
whofe tenets he propagated fome time with great zeal and 
fuccefs in Thuringia. He connected himfelf with Nicholas 
Storck, a leader among the Baptifts, wdio pretended to 
have communications with the Almighty, and to hold 
greater purity of doftrine than the reft of the party. 
Muncer was a convert to his notions, and became ardent 
in making profelytes. He maintained that, for men to 
avoid vice, they muft praftile perpetual mortification. 
They muft put on a grave countenance, lpeak but little, 
wear a plain garb, and be ferious in their whole deport¬ 
ment. Such as prepared their hearts in this manner, 
might expedl that the Supreme Being would direct all 
their fteps, and by vifible figns difcover his will to them ; 
if that illumination be at any time withheld, he fays we 
may expoftulate with the Almighty, and remind him of 
his promifes. This expoltulation will be acceptable to 
God, and will at laft prevail on him to guide us with the 
fame unerring hand which conducted the patriarchs of 
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