Word Meanings - MUMMY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: MUMMY

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 , 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. (more info) 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. Sir. J. Hill. 3. A gummy liquor that exudes from embalmed flesh when heated; -- formerly supposed to have magical and medicinal properties. Shak. Sir T. Herbert. 4. A brown color obtained from bitumen. See Mummy brown .

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• WHOSESOEVER
  The possessive of whosoever. See Whosoever.
• COLORMAN
  A vender of paints, etc. Simmonds.
• BROWNBACK
  The dowitcher or red-breasted snipe. See Dowitcher.
• GRAFTAGE
  The science of grafting, including the various methods of practice and details of operation.
• PIGMENTATION
  A deposition, esp. an excessive deposition, of coloring matter; as, pigmentation of the liver.
• PIGMENTAL; PIGMENTARY
  Of or pertaining to pigments; furnished with pigments. Dunglison. Pigmentary degeneration , a morbid condition in which an undue amount of pigment is deposited in the tissues.
• PREPARATIVELY
  By way of preparation.
• COLORATE
  Colored. Ray.
• OBTAINABLE
  Capable of being obtained.
• COLORIMETRY
  The quantitative determination of the depth of color of a substance. 2. A method of quantitative chemical analysis based upon the comparison of the depth of color of a solution with that of a standard liquid.
• UMBERY
  Of or pertaining to umber; like umber; as, umbery gold.
• COLOR
  1. To change or alter the bue or tint of, by dyeing, staining, painting, etc.; to dye; to tinge; to aint; to stain. The rays, to speak properly, are not colored; in them there is nothing else than a certain power and disposition to stir
• UMBER
  A brown or reddish pigment used in both oil and water colors, obtained from certain natural clays variously colored by the oxides of iron and manganese. It is commonly heated or burned before being used, and is then called burnt umber; when not
• BROWNIE
  An imaginary good-natured spirit, who was supposed often to perform important services around the house by night, such as thrashing, churning, sweeping.
• COLORADO BEETLE
  A yellowish beetle , with ten longitudinal, black, dorsal stripes. It has migrated eastwards from its original habitat in Colorado, and is very destructive to the potato plant; -- called also potato beetle and potato bug. See Potato beetle.
• WITHER-WRUNG
  Injured or hurt in the withers, as a horse.
• COLORADOITE
  Mercury telluride, an iron-black metallic mineral, found in Colorado.
• PIGMENTED
  Colored; specifically , filled or imbued with pigment; as, pigmented epithelial cells; pigmented granules.
• WITHERED
  Faded; dried up; shriveled; wilted; wasted; wasted away. -- With"ered*ness, n. Bp. Hall.
• WITHERS
  The ridge between the shoulder bones of a horse, at the base of the neck. See Illust. of Horse. Let the galled jade wince; our withers are unwrung. Shak. (more info) strain in drawing a load; fr. OE. wither resistance, AS. withre, fr.
• LUMBERMAN
  One who is engaged in lumbering as a business or employment.
• CONCOLOR
  Of the same color; of uniform color. "Concolor animals." Sir T. Browne.
• LUMBERING
  The business of cutting or getting timber or logs from the forest for lumber.
• CLEFTGRAFT
  To ingraft by cleaving the stock and inserting a scion. Mortimer.
• IMPREPARATION
  Want of preparation. Hooker.
• NUMBERFUL
  Numerous.
• SLUMBERY
  Sleepy. Chaucer.
• ISABELLA; ISABELLA COLOR
  A brownish yellow color. (more info) Spanish princess Isabella, daughter of king Philip II., in allusion to the color assumed by her shift, which she wore without change from
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  That may be reobtained.
• DISENCUMBER
  To free from encumbrance, or from anything which clogs, impedes, or obstructs; to disburden. Owen. I have disencumbered myself from rhyme. Dryden.
• CUMBER
  To rest upon as a troublesome or useless weight or load; to be burdensome or oppressive to; to hinder or embarrass in attaining an object, to obstruct or occupy uselessly; to embarrass; to trouble. Why asks he what avails him not in fight, And would
• CLUMBER
  A kind of field spaniel, with short legs and stout body, which, unlike other spaniels, hunts silently.