Mummy: Definition and part of speech

Mummy

  1. n. One whose affections and energies are withered.
  2. n. 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.
  3. n. Dried flesh of a mummy.
  4. n. A gummy liquor that exudes from embalmed flesh when heated; — formerly supposed to have magical and medicinal properties.
  5. n. A brown color obtained from bitumen. See Mummy brown (below).
  6. n. A sort of wax used in grafting, etc.
  7. The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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