(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.
(n.) Dried flesh of a mummy.
(n.) A gummy liquor that exudes from embalmed flesh when heated; -- formerly supposed to have magical and medicinal properties.
(n.) A brown color obtained from bitumen. See Mummy brown (below).
(n.) A sort of wax used in grafting, etc.
(n.) One whose affections and energies are withered.
(v. t.) To embalm; to mummify.
Example Sentences:
(1) Structures resembling red blood cells have been seen in mummies, but have been considered by some to be artifacts or molds.
(2) Three beautifully restored mummy portraits of well-off young people who were, 2,000 years ago, probably members of a mysterious group called "the 6475" are to go on display at the new home for one of the most important Egyptian collections in the world.
(3) If he comes back it’s like he’s got away with it.” In the club’s superstore, Zak Dilly and his girlfriend Hannah Betts – who have just chosen a babygrow for their niece with the slogan “Mummy taught me ABC, Daddy taught me SUFC” – are clear about whose side they are on.
(4) "It is not by any means the end of the road because the technology is moving on rapidly all the time, and we're hoping in the next few years we'll be able to continue scanning more mummies and revealing more remarkable facts."
(5) Three Pharaonic mummies, preserved for thousand of years, had fiberoptic endoscopy carried out of the cranial, thoracic and abdominal cavities.
(6) No cases of this disease have been seen in Peruvian mummies while in Chile it seems quite common, suggesting some environmental factor in the etiology.
(7) There are still disputes over mummy portraits, for example whether they were done while the subjects were alive or after they were dead, as part of the 70-day mummification process.
(8) The bile acids of the gall bladder and hepatic tissue of a 3200-year-old Egyptian mummy were isolated by thin-layer chromatography and identified by combined gas-liquid chromatrography and mass spectrometry.
(9) Common issues also included the books being of poor quality, getting basic facts wrong (such as referring to same-sex adopters as mummy and daddy) or being completed by someone who had never met the child.
(10) One female mummy is displayed with a translation of an offering inscription, which visitors will be invited to recite to ensure her food supply in the next world.
(11) It is worthwhile to note the suggestive role of mummy cells in pathological diagnosis of Hodgkin's disease.
(12) And Mummy said darling, do you remember Bodrum when Nanny walked into pre-lunch drinks on the gulet, of course everyone was incredibly kind, bringing her a Tizer and some After Eights before the men threw her in the sea, the gentlest of hints but basically she never left the lower decks again?
(13) A 500-year-old mummy of a seven-month-old Eskimo infant recently removed from a tomb north of Umanak presented problems of preservation.
(14) The museum has been x-raying mummies since the 1960s but, as the technology has improved, the results have dramatically improved.
(15) The ancient cultures of Babylon, Jericho, and Egypt used "art-eyes" in mummies, sarcophagus lids, and statues; they were made from precious stones, silver, gold, and copper as a symbol of light and life in their religious beliefs.
(16) The second mummy was a 18-year-old young woman, 800-700 b. C. From the inscriptions on the sarcophagus name, family and living circumstances could be found.
(17) Taylor hopes even more secrets will be revealed in years to come, including being able to read hieroglyphic inscriptions on objects inside the mummies.
(18) Recently I've just been at home enjoying being a mummy, but it's been nine months now and I'm slowly getting ready to return to work.
(19) 17.42 Julie : Mummy, tell the police they must be quick.
(20) Zoe Dronfield set up a support group, I want my Mummy (IWMM), after her abusive ex-partner was given emergency custody of their child.
Yummy
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) You may be greeted with a shotgun and a suspicious snarl as we were – then a plate of yummy moose meat, cooked on a blazing fire.
(2) If we stay beautiful we’re sexually objectified as selfish, entitled “yummy mummies” or Milfs.
(3) But M&S has tried to target by age – so there's a yummy mummy section, an aging squares department and a pensioners' aisle.
(4) He once told a journalist that he stayed so thin because he ate "baby food" but he meant "comfort food", leading to the oft-repeated and not entirely unbelievable notion of him subsisting on Cow & Gate Yummy Harvest Chicken.)
(5) All these places, especially Good 2 Go Taco, offer vegetarian and healthy options that are just as yummy.
(6) Throw in, too, the challenge of what it means to be a good enough parent, given what economist Heather Boushey calls the "ship-has-sailed reality" that only the richest can afford to keep a full-time yummy mummy in the house.
(7) For picnic supplies, the yummy Monkland Cheese Dairy is excellent for replacing any fat you burned off during your swim.
(8) "Thirty years ago my husband wasn't even allowed in the delivery room – you can't imagine that happening now," a yummy mummy's mummy told me.
(9) It was a cultural ideal, and probably bore no more relation to the lives of working mothers than the Yummy Mummy did to mothers who didn't work.
(10) If that’s for the yummy-mummy crowd, Richard Nicoll worked with Sweaty Betty – hardly a brand on most London fashion week designers’ radars – to design something that fits in with the rest of us.
(11) Watercress and lentil salad in a citrus dressing Angela Kim's yummy watercress and lentil salad.
(12) 9.38am BST Tristram Hunt , the new shadow education secretary, once dismissed free schools as "a vanity project for yummy mummies".
(13) "Yummy mummys" – or "yummy mummys and John" as it was known until I complained that the name implied I wasn't yummy – is what our neonatal class became when it moved from the health centre to a cafe, and our children moved from inside to outside.
(14) It's a beautiful film called Learning to Drive and it stars me and Ben Kingsley and it's delicious and yummy and funny, funny, funny, and very moving."
(15) As shadow education secretary he has made a few gaffes that may have infuriated the very middle Englanders he seeks to woo, including referring to parents who like free schools as “yummy mummies” and questioning whether nuns make good teachers.