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Mum"bling (?), a. Low; indistinct;
inarticulate. -- Mum"bling*ly,
adv.

Mum"bo Jum`bo (?). An object of superstitious homage
and fear. Carlyle.

The miserable Mumbo Jumbo they
paraded.

Mum"-chance` (?), n. 1.
A game of hazard played with cards in silence. [Obs. or
Prov. Eng.] Decker.

2. A silent, stupid person. [Prov.
Eng.] Halliwell.

Mum"-chance`, a. Silent and
idle. [Colloq.]

Boys can't sit mum-chance always.

Mumm (?), v. i. [imp. & p.
p. Mummed (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Mumming.] [D. mimmen to mask, mom a mask; akin
to G. mumme disguise; prob. of imitative origin, and akin to
E. mum, mumble, in allusion to the indistinctness of
speech occasioned by talking from behind a mask.


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