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Gum   /gəm/   Listen
Gum

noun
1.
A preparation (usually made of sweetened chicle) for chewing.  Synonym: chewing gum.
2.
The tissue (covered by mucous membrane) of the jaws that surrounds the bases of the teeth.  Synonym: gingiva.
3.
Any of various substances (soluble in water) that exude from certain plants; they are gelatinous when moist but harden on drying.
4.
Cement consisting of a sticky substance that is used as an adhesive.  Synonyms: glue, mucilage.
5.
Wood or lumber from any of various gum trees especially the sweet gum.  Synonym: gumwood.
6.
Any of various trees of the genera Eucalyptus or Liquidambar or Nyssa that are sources of gum.  Synonym: gum tree.
verb
(past & past part. gummed; pres. part. gumming)
1.
Cover, fill, fix or smear with or as if with gum.
2.
Grind with the gums; chew without teeth and with great difficulty.  Synonym: mumble.
3.
Become sticky.
4.
Exude or form gum.



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"Gum" Quotes from Famous Books



... enumerated in the chapter corresponding to the natural products. Among the 115 or more species of timber and wood for constructional purposes are oak, pine, mahogany, cedar, and others, whilst the list of fibrous and medicinal plants, gum-bearing trees, as india-rubber, chicle, &c., tinctorial and resinous trees, edible plants and fruits, is of much interest and value. In the tropical lowlands the country is so thickly wooded as in places to be impassable, except by clearing trails ...
— Mexico • Charles Reginald Enock

... the office of a young stockbroker I knew and stayed there until three o'clock. The next day I did the same thing, and the day after. I did not buy any stocks, but I made myself agreeable to the group about the ticker and formed the acquaintance of an elderly German, who was in the chewing-gum business and who ...
— The "Goldfish" • Arthur Train

... Dissolve Gum of Ivie in Oyle of Spike, and therewith annoint your dead bait for a Pike, and then cast it into a likely place, and when it has layen a short time at the bottom, draw it towards the top of the water, and so up the stream, ...
— The Complete Angler 1653 • Isaak Walton

... put it on her bed to keep her company while I came to watch for you. Aunt Boynton let Mrs. Mason braid her hair, and seemed to like her brushing it. It's been dreadful lonesome, and oh! I am glad you came back, Ivory. Did you find any more spruce gum ...
— The Story Of Waitstill Baxter • By Kate Douglas Wiggin

... nutmegs made of wood—the clocks that wouldn't figure? Who grinned the bark off gum-trees dark—the everlasting nigger? For twenty cents, ye Congress gents, through 'tarnity I'll kick That man, I guess, though nothing less than ...
— The Bon Gaultier Ballads • William Edmonstoune Aytoun


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