mummy

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

• n. The dead body of a human or animal that has been embalmed and prepared for burial, as according to the practices of the ancient Egyptians.
• n. A withered, shrunken, or well-preserved body that resembles an embalmed body.
• n. Informal Mother.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

• n. An embalmed corpse wrapped in linen bandages for burial, especially as practised by the ancient Egyptians.
• n. Any naturally preserved human or animal body.
• n. A substance used in medicine, prepared from mummified flesh.
• n. A pulp.
• v. To mummify.
• n. A child's term for mother.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• 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.
• transitive v. To embalm; to mummify.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

• To embalm; mummify.
• n. A dead human body embalmed and dried after the manner of the ancient Egyptian preparation for burial.
• n. The substance of a mummy; a medicinal preparation supposed to consist of the substance of mummies or of dead bodies; hence, a medicinal liquor or gum in general. Also mummia. See first quotation under mummia.
• n. In horticulture, a kind of wax used in grafting and planting trees.
• n. A brown color prepared from the asphalt taken from Egyptian mummies, and used as an oil-color by artists.
• n. A mummychog.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• n. informal terms for a mother
• n. a body embalmed and dried and wrapped for burial (as in ancient Egypt)