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"mumchance" Definitions
  1. an old dice game in which the caster is not permitted to choose the player with whom he contests the stake— compare HAZARD
  2. [dialectal, England] [influenced in meaning by mum entry: a silent stupid person
  3. MASQUERADE
  4. [chiefly dialectal] to be silent out of caution or stupidity
  5. SILENT
  6. SILENTLY

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6 Sentences With "mumchance"

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The two little children stood mumchance, but with a kindly air.
Passage and Novem were games at dice, and mumchance one at cards.
Tell her so, for she sits there mumchance, and obliges me to find more inventions than three authors for one piece.
Are they obliged to sit mumchance, and to be ordered about till they are the laughing-stock of young and old?
James VI played cards in Denmark, and William Stewart acted as his pursemaster, as John Tennent had done for James V, paying out sums of money lost by the king. James VI staked Danish dalers and rose nobles from his queen's dowry. An account of the dowry mentions that Stewart gave money to the king to play on several occasions, on 4 March 1590 James lost 4 dalers at a game called "mont". The king also played a dice game called "mumchance" and lost 41 dalers.
Two poems survive in the Grant papers, and are attributed to Lilias Murray, although whether original or copies in her own hand is not clear. The two poems, a lyric about a maid overheard complaining of the pangs of love, and a complaint against Cupid mentioning a mumchance, a masque or guising, are known in other manuscripts.Sebastiaan Verweij,The Literary Culture of Early Modern Scotland (Oxford, 2016), p. 217. She survived her husband for twenty-one years, dying in the end of 1643 or the beginning of the following year.

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