mummy

from The Century Dictionary.

• To embalm; mummify.
• noun A mummychog.
• noun A dead human body embalmed and dried after the manner of the ancient Egyptian preparation for burial.
• noun The substance of a mummy; a medicinal preparation supposed to consist of the substance of mummies or of dead bodies; hence, a medicinal liquor or gum in general. Also mummia. See first quotation under mummia.
• noun In horticulture, a kind of wax used in grafting and planting trees.
• noun A brown color prepared from the asphalt taken from Egyptian mummies, and used as an oil-color by artists.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun 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.
• noun obsolete Dried flesh of a mummy.
• noun obsolete A gummy liquor that exudes from embalmed flesh when heated; -- formerly supposed to have magical and medicinal properties.
• noun A brown color obtained from bitumen. See Mummy brown (below).
• noun (Gardening) A sort of wax used in grafting, etc.
• noun One whose affections and energies are withered.
• noun 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.
• noun (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.
• noun to beat to a senseless mass; to beat soundly.
• transitive verb To embalm; to mummify.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun chiefly UK A child's term for mother.
• noun An embalmed corpse wrapped in linen bandages for burial, especially as practised by the ancient Egyptians.
• noun Any naturally preserved human or animal body.
• noun uncountable, medicine, historical A substance used in medicine, prepared from mummified flesh.
• noun archaic A pulp.
• verb dated, transitive To mummify.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun informal terms for a mother
• noun a body embalmed and dried and wrapped for burial (as in ancient Egypt)