Definition of "mumchance" []

• Mute, or not speaking; silent. (adjective)

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• "“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?"
• "She was the managing partner; the life was hers, not his; after his retirement they lived much abroad, where the poor captain, who could never learn any language but his own, sat in the corner mumchance; and even his son, carried away by his bright mother, did not recognise for long the treasures of simple chivalry that lay buried in the heart of his father."