Word Meanings - MUMMERY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Masking; frolic in disguise; buffoonery. The mummery of foreign strollers. Fenton. 2. Farcical show; hypocritical disguise and parade or ceremonies. Bacon.

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• BACON
  The back and sides of a pig salted and smoked; formerly, the flesh of a pig salted or fresh. Bacon beetle , a beetle which, especially in the larval state, feeds upon bacon, woolens, furs, etc. See Dermestes. -- To save one's bacon, to save one's
• BACONIAN
  Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon, or to his system of philosophy. Baconian method, the inductive method. See Induction.
• MASK SHELL
  Any spiral marine shell of the genus Persona, having a curiously twisted aperture.
• FROLICKY
  Frolicsome. Richardson.
• BUFFOONERY
  The arts and practices of a buffoon, as low jests, ridiculous pranks, vulgar tricks and postures. Nor that it will ever constitute a wit to conclude a tart piece of buffoonery with a "What makes you blush" Spectator.
• FOREIGNER
  A person belonging to or owning allegiance to a foreign country; one not native in the country or jurisdiction under consideration, or not naturalized there; an alien; a stranger. Joy is such a foreigner, So mere a stranger to my thoughts. Denham.
• FOREIGNNESS
  The quality of being foreign; remoteness; want of relation or appropriateness. Let not the foreignness of the subject hinder you from endeavoring to set me right. Locke. A foreignness of complexion. G. Eliot.
• MASK
  A grotesque head or face, used to adorn keystones and other prominent parts, to spout water in fountains, and the like; -- called also mascaron. In a permanent fortification, a redoubt which protects the caponiere. A screen for a battery. (more
• MASKER
  One who wears a mask; one who appears in disguise at a masquerade.
• DISGUISEMENT
  Disguise. Spenser.
• DISGUISEDLY
  In disguise.
• FROLICFUL
  Frolicsome.
• PARADE
  An assembly and orderly arrangement or display of troops, in full equipments, for inspection or evolutions before some superior officer; a review of troops. Parades are general, regimental, or private , according to the force assembled. 3. Pompous
• DISGUISEDNESS
  The state of being disguised.
• MUMMERY
  1. Masking; frolic in disguise; buffoonery. The mummery of foreign strollers. Fenton. 2. Farcical show; hypocritical disguise and parade or ceremonies. Bacon.
• FROLIC
  Full of levity; dancing, playing, or frisking about; full of pranks; frolicsome; gay; merry. The frolic wind that breathes the spring. Milton. The gay, the frolic, and the loud. Waller. (more info) fr, Dan. fro, OS. fr, cf. Icel. fr swift; all
• FARCICAL
  Pertaining to farce; appropriated to farce; ludicrous; unnatural; unreal. They deny the characters to be farcical, because they are Gay. -- Far"ci*cal*ly, adv. -Far"ci*cal*ness, n.
• MASKINONGE
  The muskellunge.
• MASKED
  See PERSONATE (more info) 1. Wearing a mask or masks; characterized by masks; cincealed; hidden.
• DISGUISER
  1. One who, or that which, disguises. Shak. 2. One who wears a disguise; an actor in a masquerade; a masker. E. Hall.
• BERGOMASK
  A rustic dance, so called in ridicule of the people of Bergamo, in Italy, once noted for their clownishness.
• ANTIC-MASK
  An antimask. B. Jonson.
• ANTIMASK
  A secondary mask, or grotesque interlude, between the parts of a serious mask. Bacon.
• DAMASK
  Dammesq, Ar. Daemeshq; cf. Heb. d'meseq damask; cf. It. damasco, Sp. 1. Damask silk; silk woven with an elaborate pattern of flowers and the like. "A bed of ancient damask." W. Irving. 2. Linen so woven that a pattern in produced by the different
• UNMASK
  To strip of a mask or disguise; to lay open; to expose.
• DAMASKIN
  A sword of Damask steel. No old Toledo blades or damaskins. Howell
• IMMASK
  To cover, as with a mask; to disguise or conceal. Shak.