Boys can't sit mum-chance always.
J. H. Ewing.
Mumm (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Mummed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Mumming.] [D.
mimmen to mask, mom a mask; akin to G. mumme disguise; prob. of
imitative origin, and akin to E. mum, mumble, in allusion to the
indistinctness of speech occasioned by talking from behind a mask. Cf.
Mumble, Mummery.] To sport or make diversion in a mask or disguise; to
mask.
With mumming and with masking all around.
Spenser.
Mumm"er (?), n. [Cf. OF. mommeur. See Mumm, and cf. Momier.] One who
mumms, or makes diversion in disguise; a masker; a buffon.
Jugglers and dancers, antics, mummers.
Milton.
Mum"mer*y (?), n.; pl. Mummeries (#). [F. momerie, of Dutch or German
origin. See Mumm.] 1. Masking; frolic in disguise; buffoonery.
The mummery of foreign strollers.
Fenton.
2. Farcical show; hypocritical disguise and parade or ceremonies.
Bacon.
Mum"mi*chog (?), n. [Amer. Indian name.] (Zoöl.) Any one of several
species of small American cyprinodont fishes of the genus Fundulus, and
of allied genera; the killifishes; -- called also minnow. [Written also
mummychog, mummachog.]
Mum`mi*fi*ca"tion (?), n. [See Mummify.] The act of making a mummy.
Mum"mi*fied (?), a. Converted into a mummy or a mummylike substance;
having the appearance of a mummy; withered.
Mum"mi*form (?), a. [Mummy + -form.] Having some resemblance to a
mummy; -- in zoölogy, said of the pupæ of certain insects.
Mum"mi*fy (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mummified (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Mummifying (?).] [Mummy + -fy: cf. F. momifier.] To embalm and dry as a
mummy; to make into, or like, a mummy. Hall (1646).
Mum"my (mm"m), n.; pl. Mummies (#). [F. momie; cf. Sp. & Pg. momia, It.
mummia; all fr. Per. mmiy, fr. mm 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.