GUM
\ɡˈʌm], \ɡˈʌm], \ɡ_ˈʌ_m]\
Definitions of GUM
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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a preparation (usually made of sweetened chicle) for chewing
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the tissue (covered by mucous membrane) of the jaws that surrounds the bases of the teeth
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wood or lumber from any of various gum trees especially the sweet gum
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any of various substances (soluble in water) that exude from certain plants; they are gelatinous when moist but harden on drying
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exude or form gum; "these trees gum in the Spring"
By Princeton University
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a preparation (usually made of sweetened chicle) for chewing
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the tissue (covered by mucous membrane) of the jaws that surrounds the bases of the teeth
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grind with the gums; chew without teeth and with great difficulty; of babies and old people
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wood or lumber from any of various gum trees especially the sweet gum
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any of various substances (soluble in water) that exude from certain plants; they are gelatinous when moist but harden on drying
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The dense tissues which invest the teeth, and cover the adjacent parts of the jaws.
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To deepen and enlarge the spaces between the teeth of (a worn saw). See Gummer.
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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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See Gum tree, below.
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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.
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A rubber overshoe.
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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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To exude or from gum; to become gummy.
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Alt. of copal
By Oddity Software
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The dense tissues which invest the teeth, and cover the adjacent parts of the jaws.
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To deepen and enlarge the spaces between the teeth of (a worn saw). See Gummer.
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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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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.
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A rubber overshoe.
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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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To exude or from gum; to become gummy.
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Alt. of copal
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See tree, below.
By Noah Webster.
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The soft flesh by which the teeth are surrounded; a sticky substance that comes out of certain trees and shrubs and hardens on the surface; mucilage; India rubber; in the United States, a preparation of a cohesive substance used for chewing.
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To smear or close with mucilage.
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To become sticky.
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Grummed.
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Gumming.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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1. The dried exuded sap from a number of trees and shrubs, forming an amorphous brittle mass ;it forms usually a mucilaginous solution in water. 2. Gingiva, the fibrous tissue covering the alveolar processes of the jaws; see gums. 3. An acneiform eruption in the infant.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William R. Warner
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The flesh of the jaws which surrounds the teeth.
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A substance which exudes from certain trees, and hardens on the surface.
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To smear or unite with gum:-pr.p. gumming; pa.p. gummed'.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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India rubber.
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To smear, stiffen, or stick with gum; become stiff and sticky.
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The bardened sap of certain trees or shrubs.
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The fleshy tissue that invests the necks of the teeth.
By James Champlin Fernald
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The fleshy substance of the jaws, in which the teeth are imbedded.
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A transparent mucilage which exudes from trees, and is more or less soluble in water.
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To smear with gum; to unite by a viscous substance.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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A vegetable mucilage or glue, found thickened on the surface of certain trees.
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To smear with gum; to unite with gum.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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A thick, viscid, tenacious plant exudation which hardens on exposure to the air into a transparent amorphous vitreous mass, distinguished from a resin by being insoluble in alcohol, soluble in water and forming a mucilage with it, or at least being softened by it. See gum resin.
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Caoutchouc; used in this sense especially in composition.
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The fibrous and mucous structure overlying the alveolar processes of the maxillary bones; often used in the plural.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. [Anglo-Saxon, Icelandic] The hard, fleshy substance covering the jaws and investing the teeth.
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n. [Anglo-Saxon, German, Latin, Greek] A concrete mucilage which exudes from the bark of several trees, and thickens on the surface—of several qualities, and generally soluble in cold or hot water—used largely for stiffening and adhesive purposes.
