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encía
, goma
, cola
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Definition & Synonyms
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• Gum
- (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.
- (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.
- (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.
- (n.) The dense tissues which invest the teeth, and cover the adjacent parts of the jaws.
- (n.) See Gum tree, below.
- (v. t.) To deepen and enlarge the spaces between the teeth of (a worn saw). See Gummer.
- (v. i.) To exude or from gum; to become gummy.
- (n.) A rubber overshoe.
- () Alt. of copal
Synonyms:
Glue, Mucilage, Mumble,
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• Gumption
- (n.) Capacity; shrewdness; common sense.
- (n.) The art of preparing colors.
- (n.) Megilp.
Synonyms:
Backbone, Common sense, Grit, Moxie, Sand, Sense,
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• Gumboil
- (n.) A small suppurting inflamed spot on the gum.
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