a body embalmed, or dried and preserved in the manner practised by the ancient Egyptians. There are two kinds of bodies denominated mummies. The first are only carcases dried by the heat of the sun, and by that means preserved from putrefaction. Some well-known specimens of this class of mummies are to be found in the church vaults of Strasburg, Toulouse, and Bordeaux. The second kind of mummies are bodies taken out of the catacombs in which the Egyptians deposited their dead after embalming. (See Embalming; also Sir G. Wilkinson's Ancient Egyptians, vol. ii.)