Mummy

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim An embalmed human or non-human animal corpse wrapped in linen bandages for burial, especially as practised by the ancient Egyptians and some Native American tribes.

   “But, more horrible, I had not failed to note that its purplish gleaming body resembled that of a human being - or of a chrysalis encasing one - or of a mummy!”

2. isim A reanimated embalmed human corpse, as a stock character in horror films.

   “For many, mummies fascinate more than repel. Our horrific connotations lie not so much with the mummy itself, but in associated fears. The mummy serves, of course, as a general reminder of our own mortality and our fear of death, but this alone is not enough to make it a monster.”

3. isim Any naturally preserved human or non-human animal body.

   “'Mummy,' that is pounded ancient Egyptian, is, I believe, a pigment much used by artists, and especially by those of them who direct their talents to the reproduction of the works of the old masters.”

4. isim A brown pigment originally prepared from the ground-up remains of Egyptian animal or human mummies mixed with bitumen, etc.
5. isim A pulp.

   “Imagine twenty thouſand of them breaking into the midſt of an European Army, confounding the Ranks, overturning the Carriages, battering the Warriors Faces into Mummy, by terrible Yerks from their hinder Hoofs.”

6. isim A substance used in medicine, prepared from mummified flesh.

   “Yet another scatological medicament was obtained from mummy, the material derived from a dried or embalmed human corpse, the most valuable being that imported from Mizraim (ancient Egypt).”

7. isim A sort of wax used in grafting.
8. fiil To mummify.
9. isim mother.

   “Meeting mummy after this visit was not exactly easy.”

10. özel isim One's mother.