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A gum of a crimson color, obtained from a tree (Macaranga Indica) that grows in the East Indies. It is used in taking impressions of coins, medallions, etc., and sometimes as a medicine.
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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.
The state or quality of being gummy; viscousness.
n.
Gumminess; a viscous or adhesive quality or nature.
v. t.
To deepen and enlarge the spaces between the teeth of (a worn saw). See Gummer.
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.
imp. &. p.
of Gum
n.
See Gum tree, below.
n.
An instrument for measuring the degree of viscosity of liquids, as solutions of gum.
pl.
of Gumma
n.
The concrete juice (gum resin) of an umbelliferous plant, the Dorema ammoniacum. It is brought chiefly from Persia in the form of yellowish tears, which occur singly, or are aggregated into masses. It has a peculiar smell, and a nauseous, sweet taste, followed by a bitter one. It is inflammable, partially soluble in water and in spirit of wine, and is used in medicine as an expectorant and resolvent, and for the formation of certain plasters.
n.
A small suppurting inflamed spot on the gum.
a.
Belonging to, or resembling, gumma.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Gum
a.
Gumlike, or composed of gum; gummy.
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Consisting of gum; viscous; adhesive; producing or containing gum; covered with gum or a substance resembling gum.
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Of or pertaining to a gumma.
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.
a.
Producing gum; gum-bearing.
v. i.
To exude or from gum; to become gummy.
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