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From GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English, version 0.54:
Gum (?), n. [OE. gome, AS. gama palate; akin Co G. gaumen, OHG. goumo, guomo, Icel. g<?>mr, Sw. gom; cf. Gr. <?> to gape.] The dense tissues which invest the teeth, and cover the adjacent parts of the jaws.
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Gum rash (Med.), strophulus in a teething child; red gum. -- Gum stick, a smooth hard substance for children to bite upon while teething.
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From GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English, version 0.54:
Gum, v. t. To deepen and enlarge the spaces between the teeth of (a worn saw). See {Gummer}.
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From GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English, version 0.54:
Gum, n. [OE. gomme, gumme, F. gomme, L. gummi and commis, fr. Gr. <?>, prob. from an Egyptian form kam<?>; cf. It. {gomma}.]
1. 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”.
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2. (Bot.) See {Gum tree}, {below}.
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3. 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. [Southern U. S.]
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4. A rubber overshoe. [Local, U. S.]
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Black gum, Blue gum, British gum, etc. See under {Black}, {Blue}, etc. -- Gum Acaroidea, the resinous gum of the Australian grass tree (Xanlhorrhœa). -- Gum animal (Zool.), the galago of West Africa; -- so called because it feeds on gums. See {Galago}. -- Gum animi or animé. See {Animé}. -- Gum arabic, a gum yielded mostly by several species of Acacia (chiefly A. vera and A. Arabica) growing in Africa and Southern Asia; -- called also gum acacia. East Indian gum arabic comes from a tree of the Orange family which bears the elephant apple. -- Gum butea, a gum yielded by the Indian plants Butea frondosa and B. superba, and used locally in tanning and in precipitating indigo. -- Gum cistus, a plant of the genus Cistus (Cistus ladaniferus), a species of rock rose. -- Gum dragon. See {Tragacanth}. -- Gum elastic, Elastic gum. See {Caoutchouc}. -- Gum elemi. See {Elemi}. -- Gum juniper. See {Sandarac}. -- Gum kino. See under {Kino}. -- Gum lac. See {Lac}. -- Gum Ladanum, a fragrant gum yielded by several Oriental
species of Cistus or rock rose. -- Gum passages, sap receptacles extending through the parenchyma of certain plants (Amygdalaceæ, Cactaceæ, etc.), and affording passage for gum. -- Gum pot, a varnish maker's utensil for melting gum and mixing other ingredients. -- Gum resin, the milky juice of a plant solidified by exposure to air; one of certain inspissated saps, mixtures of, or having properties of, gum and resin; a resin containing more or less mucilaginous and gummy matter. -- Gum sandarac. See {Sandarac}. -- Gum Senegal, a gum similar to gum arabic, yielded by trees (Acacia Verek and A. Adansoniä) growing in the Senegal country, West Africa. -- Gum tragacanth. See {Tragacanth}. -- Gum water, a solution of gum, esp. of gum arabic, in water. -- Gum wood, the wood of any gum tree, esp. the wood of the Eucalyptus piperita, of New South Wales.
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From GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English, version 0.54:
Gum, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gummed (gŭmd); p. pr. & vb. n. Gumming.]
1. 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.
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He frets like a gummed velvet.
-- Shak.
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2. To chew with the gums, rather than with the teeth.
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gum up (a) To block or clog (a conduit) with or as if with gum; as, “to gum up the drainpipe”. (b) to interfere with; to spoil. [Slang]
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From GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English, version 0.54:
Gum, v. i. To exude or form gum; to become gummy.
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