Gum

[gʌm] or [ɡʌm]

Definition

(noun.) any of various substances (soluble in water) that exude from certain plants; they are gelatinous when moist but harden on drying.

(verb.) exude or form gum; 'these trees gum in the Spring'.

(verb.) become sticky.

(verb.) cover, fill, fix or smear with or as if with gum; 'if you gum the tape it is stronger'.

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Definition

(n.) The dense tissues which invest the teeth, and cover the adjacent parts of the jaws.

(v. t.) To deepen and enlarge the spaces between the teeth of (a worn saw). See Gummer.

(n.) A vegetable secretion of many trees or plants that hardens when it exudes, but is soluble in water; as, gum arabic; gum tragacanth; the gum of the cherry tree. Also, with less propriety, exudations that are not soluble in water; as, gum copal and gum sandarac, which are really resins.

(n.) See Gum tree, below.

(n.) A hive made of a section of a hollow gum tree; hence, any roughly made hive; also, a vessel or bin made of a hollow log.

(n.) A rubber overshoe.

(v. t.) To smear with gum; to close with gum; to unite or stiffen by gum or a gumlike substance; to make sticky with a gumlike substance.

(v. i.) To exude or from gum; to become gummy.

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Definition

n. a substance which exudes from certain trees and plants and hardens on the surface including those containing arabin bassorin and gum-resins.—v.t. to smear or unite with gum:—pr.p. gum′ming; pa.p. gummed.—ns. Gum′-ar′abic a gum obtained from various species of acacia; Gum′-drag′on tragacanth; Gum′-elas′tic india-rubber or caoutchouc; Gum′-ju′niper sandarac.—adj. Gummif′erous producing gum.—ns. Gum′miness; Gum′ming act of fastening with gum esp. the application of gum-water to a lithographic stone: a disease marked by a discharge of gum affecting stone-fruit; Gummos′ity gumminess.—adjs. Gum′mous Gum′my consisting of or resembling gum: producing or covered with gum.—ns. Gum′-rash red-gum; Gum′-res′in a vegetable secretion formed of resin mixed with more or less gum or mucilage; Gum′-tree a name applied to various American and Australian trees; Chew′ing-gum (see Chew).

n. the firm fleshy tissue which surrounds the teeth: (slang) insolence.—n. Gum′boil a boil or small abscess on the gum.

Editor: Rufus

Unserious Contents or Definition

A substance for sticking.

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