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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Mumm \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. Cf. {Mumble},
      {Mummery}.]
      To sport or make diversion in a mask or disguise; to mask.
  
               With mumming and with masking all around. --Spenser.
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