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Definition of Mummies

Mummies
Mummy Mum"my, n.; pl. Mummies. [F. momie; cf. Sp. & Pg. momia, It. mummia; all fr. Per. m?miy[=a], fr. m?m wax.] 1. 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. 2. Dried flesh of a mummy. [Obs.] --Sir. J. Hill. 3. A gummy liquor that exudes from embalmed flesh when heated; -- formerly supposed to have magical and medicinal properties. [Obs.] --Shak. --Sir T. Herbert. 4. A brown color obtained from bitumen. See Mummy brown (below). 5. (Gardening) A sort of wax used in grafting, etc. 6. 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.

Meaning of Mummies from wikipedia

- artifacts. Over one million animal mummies have been found in Egypt, many of which are cats. Many of the Egyptian animal mummies are sacred ibis, and radiocarbon...
- having been buried up to two thousand years before the Egyptian mummies. The earliest mummy that has been found in Egypt dates from around 3000 BC, while...
- 2021, Mummies was theatrically released in Spain on February 24, 2023. It received some mixed-reviews from critics. The film follows three mummies from...
- The Mummies, 1980s American garage punk band Mummia, a substance also known as "mummy" Mummy brown, a pigment claimed to be made from mummies Mummy paper...
- The Tarim mummies are a series of mummies discovered in the Tarim Basin in present-day Xinjiang, China, which date from 1800 BCE to the first centuries...
- the moniker the Mummies and immediately became known for their style of dress, clothing themselves in tattered rags like monster mummies. This homemade...
- S****my Mummies are a British-Australian comedy double act composed of Ellie Gibson and Helen Thorn. Their podcast, The S****my Mummies Podcast, has had...
- pre-Columbian bird mummies have been found in the Atacama Desert of Chile, including some next to the oasis town of Pica. These mummies were part of unknown...
- Momias ("The Museum of the Mummies") in 1969. As of 2007, 59 mummies were on display, of a collection that totals 111. The mummies began to be exhumed from...
- Mummies are commonly featured in horror genres as undead creatures wrapped in bandages. Similar undead include skeletons and zombies. The mummy genre...