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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.

The thing thus caught abd eaten. Johnson. Cakes and ale, and flapdragtons and mummer's plays, and all the happy sports of Christians night. C. Kingsley.

g,esp. of any flexible substance; a part laid over on another part; a plait; a plication. Mummies . . . shrouded in a number of folds of linen. Bacon. Folds are most common in the rocks of mountainous regions. J. D. Dana.

To cause to become antiquated, rigid, or fixed, as by fossilization; to mummify; to deaden. Ten layers of birthdays on a woman's head Are apt to fossilize her girlish mirth. Mrs. Browning.

A person in disguise; a masker; a mummer. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

metimes containing a decorated chamber, sometimes of solid masonry), and connected with a mummy chamber in the rock beneath.

ated genera. They live both in fresh and in salt water. Called also killifish, minny, and mummichog.mummichog

See Mummery. Rowe.

A mountainlike mass; something of great bulk. I should have been a mountain of mummy. Shak. The Mountain (La montagne) (French Hist.), a popular name given in 1793 to a party of extreme Jacobins in the National Convention, who occupied the highest rows of seats.

f the principal divinities of Egypt, the brother and husband of Isis. He was figured as a mummy wearing the royal cap of Upper Egypt, and was symbolized by the sacred bull, called Apis. Cf. Serapis. -- O*sir"i*an, a.

terally, the head of an ox (emblem of cuckoldom); hence, a dolt; a blockhead. Dost make a mummer of me, oxhead Marston.