mumbling, gumming
(noun) ineffectual chewing (as if without teeth)
gum
(verb) exude or form gum; “these trees gum in the Spring”
gum
(verb) become sticky
mumble, gum
(verb) grind with the gums; chew without teeth and with great difficulty; “the old man had no teeth left and mumbled his food”
gum
(verb) cover, fill, fix or smear with or as if with gum; “if you gum the tape it is stronger”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
gumming
present participle of gum
gumming (countable and uncountable, plural gummings)
The act of chewing without teeth.
(mining, historical) The manual removal of clay, or "gum", from cut coal.
The act of fastening with gum, especially the application of gum-water to a lithographic stone.
A disease marked by a discharge of gum, affecting stone fruit.
Source: Wiktionary
Gum, n. Etym: [OE. gome, AS. gama palate; akin Co G. gaumen, OHG. goumo, guomo, Icel. g, Sw. gom; cf. Gr.
Definition: The dense tissues which invest the teeth, and cover the adjacent parts of the jaws. Gum rash (Med.), strophulus in a teething child; red gum.
– Gum stick, a smooth hard substance for children to bite upon while teething.
Gum, v. t.
Definition: To deepen and enlarge the spaces between the teeth of (a worn saw). See Gummer.
Gum, n. Etym: [OE. gomme, gumme, F. gomme, L. gummi and commis, fr. Gr. 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.
2. (Bot.)
Definition: See Gum tree, below.
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.]
4. A rubber overshoe. [Local, U. S.] Black gum, Blue gum, British gum, etc. See under Black, Blue, etc.
– Gum Acaroidea, the resinous gum of the Australian grass tree (Xanlhorrhoea).
– Gum animal (Zoöl.), the galago of West Africa; -- so called because it feeds on gums. See Galago.
– Gum animi or animĂ©. See AnimĂ©.
– 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 tree, the name given to several trees in America and Australia: (a) The black gum (Nyssa multiflora), one of the largest trees of the Southern States, bearing a small blue fruit, the favorite food of the opossum. Most of the large trees become hollow. (b) A tree of the genus Eucalyptus. See Eucalpytus. (c) The sweet gum tree of the United States (Liquidambar styraciflua), a large and beautiful tree with pointedly lobed leaves and woody burlike fruit. It exudes an aromatic terebinthine juice.
– 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.
Gum, v. t. [imp. &. p. Gummed; p. pr. & vb. n. Gumming.]
Definition: 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. He frets likke a gummed velvet.Shak.
Gum, v. i.
Definition: To exude or from gum; to become gummy.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
25 April 2024
(verb) embody the essential characteristics of or be a typical example of; “The fugue typifies Bach’s style of composition”
Contrary to popular belief, coffee beans are not technically beans. They are referred to as such because of their resemblance to legumes. A coffee bean is a seed of the Coffea plant and the source for coffee. It is the pit inside the red or purple fruit, often referred to as a cherry. Just like ordinary cherries, the coffee fruit is also a so-called stone fruit.
