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Silent; not speaking. Thackeray. The citizens are mum, and speak not a word. Shak.

Silent and idle. [Colloq.] Boys can't sit mum-chance always. J. H. Ewing.

grumbling indistinct manner, indicating discontent or displeasure; to mutter. Peace, you mumbling fool. Shak. A wrinkled hag, with age grown double, Picking dry sticks, and mumbling to herself. Otway.

A talebearer. [Obs.]

One who mumbles.

Low; indistinct; inarticulate. -- Mum"bling*ly, adv.

An object of superstitious homage and fear. Carlyle. The miserable Mumbo Jumbo they paraded. Dickens.

To sport or make diversion in a mask or disguise; to mask. With mumming and with masking all around. Spenser.

One who mumms, or makes diversion in disguise; a masker; a buffon. Jugglers and dancers, antics, mummers. Milton.

Masking; frolic in disguise; buffoonery. The mummery of foreign strollers. Fenton.

nus Fundulus, and of allied genera; the killifishes; -- called also minnow. [Written also mummychog, mummachog.]

The act of making a mummy.

Converted into a mummy or a mummylike substance; having the appearance of a mummy; withered.

Having some resemblance to a mummy; -- in zoölogy, said of the pupæ of certain insects.

To embalm and dry as a mummy; to make into, or like, a mummy. Hall (1646).

Dried flesh of a mummy. [Obs.] Sir. J. Hill.

See Mummichog.

To move the lips with the mouth closed; to mumble, as in sulkiness. He mumps, and lovers, and hangs the lip. Taylor, 1630.

A beggar; a begging impostor. Deceived by the tales of a Lincoln's Inn mumper. Macaulay.

Sullen, sulky. -- Mump"ish*ly, adv. -- Mump"ish*ness, n.