Webster's Dictionary 1913

5725

Multocular

Mul‐toc″u‐lar (?), a. [Multi- + L. oculus eye.] Having many eyes, or more than two.

5726

Multum

Mul″tum (?), n. An extract of quassia licorice, fraudulently used by brewers in order to economize malt and hops. Craig.Hard multum, a preparation made from Cocculus Indicus, et...

5727

Multungulate

Mul‐tun″gu‐late (?), a. [Multi- + ungulate.] Having many hoofs.

5728

Multure

Mul″ture (?), n. [OF. multure, moulture, F. mouture, fr. L. molitura a grinding, molere to grind. See Mill the machine.] 1. (Scots Law) The toll for grinding grain. Erskine.2. A...

5729

Mum

Mum (?), a. [Of imitative origin. Cf. Mumble.] Silent; not speaking. Thackeray.The citizens are mum, and speak not a word. Shak.

5730

Mum (2)

Mum, interj. Be silent! Hush!Mum, then, and no more. Shak.

5731

Mum (3)

Mum, n. Silence. Hudibras.

5732

Mum (4)

Mum, n. [G. mummere, fr. Christian Mumme, who first brewed it in 1492.] A sort of strong beer, originally made in Brunswick, Germany. Addison.The clamorous crowd is hushed with ...

5733

Mum-chance

Mum″–chance′ (?), n. 1. A game of hazard played with cards in silence. Decker.2. A silent, stupid person. Halliwell.

5734

Mum-chance (2)

Mum″–chance′, a. Silent and idle.Boys can't sit mum-chance always. J. H. Ewing.

5735

Mumble

Mum″ble (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Mumbled (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Mumbling (?).] [OE. momelen; cf. D. mompelen, mommelen, G. mummelen, Sw. mumla, Dan. mumle. Cf. Mum, a., Mumm, Mump, ...

5736

Mumble (2)

Mum″ble (mŭm″b'l), v. t. 1. To utter with a low, inarticulate voice. Bp. Hall.2. To chew or bite gently, as one without teeth.Gums unarmed, to mumble meat in vain. Dryden.3. To ...

5737

Mumblenews

Mum″ble‐news′ (?), n. A talebearer.

5738

Mumbler

Mum″bler (?), n. One who mumbles.

5739

Mumbling

Mum″bling (?), a. Low; indistinct; inarticulate. — Mum″bling‐ly, adv.

5740

Mumbo Jumbo

Mum″bo Jum′bo (?). An object of superstitious homage and fear. Carlyle.The miserable Mumbo Jumbo they paraded. Dickens.

5741

Mumbo Jumbo (2)

Mum″bo Jum″bo (?), n. Among the Mandingos of the western Sudan, a bugbear by means of which the women are terrified and disciplined by societies of the men, one of whom assumes ...

5742

Mumm

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, mumbl...

5743

Mummer

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.

5744

Mummery

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. Fa...

5745

Mummichog

Mum″mi‐chog (?), n.(Zoöl.) Any one of several species of small American cyprinodont fishes of the genus Fundulus, and of allied genera; the killifishes; — called also minnow. [W...

5746

Mummification

Mum′mi‐fi‐ca″tion (?), n. [See Mummify.] The act of making a mummy.

5747

Mummified

Mum″mi‐fied (?), a. Converted into a mummy or a mummylike substance; having the appearance of a mummy; withered.

5748

Mummiform

Mum″mi‐form (?), a. [Mummy + -form.] Having some resemblance to a mummy; — in zoölogy, said of the pupæ of certain insects.

5749

Mummify

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. Ha...

5750

Mummy

Mum″my (mŭm″my̆), n.; pl.Mummies (#). [F. momie; cf. Sp. & Pg. momia, It. mummia; all fr. Per. mūmiyā, fr. mūm wax.] 1. A dead body embalmed and dried after the manner of the an...

5751

Mummy (2)

Mum″my, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Mummied (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Mummying.] To embalm; to mummify.