mummification

[English mummify; c connective, and suff. -ation.] The act of mummifying or making into a mummy. "Allowance for the contraction produced in mummifl cation."-Wilson: Prehistoric Man , ii. 137. mum'-mi-fied, pa . par . or a . [MUMMIFY.] mum-mi-form, a. [Eng. mummy , and form .] *1. Ord . Lang .: Having the form or appearance of a mummy. 2. Entom .: An epithet sometimes applied to the chrysalides of certain Lepidoptera. mum-mi-fỹ, v. t. [English mummy: suff. -fu (q. v.).] To make into a mummy; to embalm and dry, as a mummy. IMG:content-1485.png:[blocks in formation] closed. B. Transitive : 1. To utter indistinctly or inarticulately; to mut ter. "Mumbling hellish charms."- Drayton : Moon-Calf. 2. To chew or mouth gently; to eat with a mum. bling noise. "As they lazily mumbled the bones of the dead." Byron: Siege of Corinth, v. 16. 3. To suppre ; to utter imperfectly. *mumble-matins, s. A contemptuous name for an ignorant monk or friar. *mumble-news, s. A tale-bearer. "Some mumble-news, some trencher-knight, some Dick." Shakesp.: Love's Labor's Lost, v. 2.