gums
plural of gum
gums
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gum
• MGUs, mugs, smug
Gums
plural of Gum
• MGUs, mugs, smug
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 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 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
23 December 2024
(noun) Australian tree having hard white timber and glossy green leaves with white flowers followed by one-seeded glossy blue fruit
Coffee starts as a yellow berry, changes into a red berry, and then is picked by hand to harvest. The red berry is de-shelled through a water soaking process and what’s left inside is the green coffee bean. This bean then dries in the sun for 3-5 days, where it is then packed and ready for sale.
