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Gum

noun

A preparation (usually made of sweetened chicle) for chewing. Synonym: chewing gum.

The tissue (covered by mucous membrane) of the jaws that surrounds the bases of the teeth. Synonym: gingiva.

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

Cement consisting of a sticky substance that is used as an adhesive. Synonyms: glue, mucilage.

Wood or lumber from any of various gum trees especially the sweet gum. Synonym: gumwood.

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)

Cover, fill, fix or smear with or as if with gum.

Grind with the gums; chew without teeth and with great difficulty. Synonym: mumble.

Become sticky.

Exude or form gum.

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"Gum" Quotes from Famous Books

... drachms; gum sandric 3 drachms; spirits of wine 1/2 pint. Dissolve the balsam and gum in the spirits of wine and it is ...

— Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets • Daniel Young

... great, why did mamma punish me when I fought with Jim Gowdey? He stole my jack-knife, and knocked me down, and set down on me, and took my chewing-gum away from me, and chewed it himself. And I rose against him, and we fought and bled: my nose bled, and so did his. But I got it away from him, and chewed it myself. But mamma punished me, and said; God wouldn't love me if I quarrelled so, and if we couldn't agree, we must get ...

— Sweet Cicely - Or Josiah Allen as a Politician • Josiah Allen's Wife (Marietta Holley)

... elect circle the other members were Skitsie Morgan and Gum Decker, expert "box men," and Leopold Pretzfelder, a jeweller downtown, who manipulated the "sparklers" and other ornaments collected by the working trio. All good and loyal men, as loose-tongued as Memnon and as fickle as the ...

— Rolling Stones • O. Henry

... pleasures of man. And before they separated, it came out that he had been for some time touched with the soft enchantments of love for a young maiden, the daughter of a gentleman of good account in Paisley, and that her chaste piety was as the precious gum wherewith the Egyptians of old preserved their dead in everlasting beauty, keeping from her presence all taint of impurity and of thoughts sullying to innocence, insomuch that, even were he inclined, as ...

— Ringan Gilhaize - or The Covenanters • John Galt

... like this. Here the other mornin', as I'm sittin' placid at my desk dictatin' routine correspondence into a wax cylinder that's warranted not to yank gum or smell of frangipani—sittin' there dignified and a bit haughty, like a highborn private sec. ought to, you know—who should come paddin' up to my elbow but the main ...

— Wilt Thou Torchy • Sewell Ford

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