Crossword-Solution: MUME 4 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Mume |Japan |Rose; |This is a small and pretty | |early, |tree of upright growth, and | |before the|the leaves large and | |leaves |shining green in colour.

The repose of sleepers was disturbed by nightmares, the rye-mume sat in the ears of corn, and the little wood fairy on the felled timber, the will-o'-the-wisp in the marsh fluttered about restlessly, and endeavoured to entice men out of the right track.

Two actors playing the game of “go” with mume blossoms, and a third actor as a woman in the rôle of an umpire standing between them.

She addressed the old woman as “Madame Mume,” and preserved always towards her the reserved and dignified attitude of the mistress to the maid.

Yet her father addressed her as “Mother.” Wistaria knew the old woman was not his mother, and she could not believe she was even akin to them; for had she not always been taught that the family from which she was descended was one of the oldest and noblest in Japan, while old Madame Mume, though gentle and good, wore the garb of the poor heimin.