mummy a preparation, for magical purposes, made
from dead bodies:
“Witches' mummy,”
MACBETH, iv. 1. 23
;
“mummy which the skilful Conserved of maidens' hearts,”
OTHELLO, iii. 4. 74.
(On the second of these passages Steevens has a note about “the balsamic liquor running from mummies,” etc., which seems
irrelevant to the text.)