Part 5029

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A disgorging.</def> <mark>[Colloq.]</mark>

<h1>Gulph</h1> <Xpage=658>

<hw>Gulph</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> <def>See <er>Gulf</er>.</def>

<h1>Gult</h1> <Xpage=658>

<hw>Gult</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Guilt. See <er>Guilt</er>.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<h1>Gulty</h1> <Xpage=658>

<hw>Gult"y</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Guilty.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<h1>Guly</h1> <Xpage=658>

<hw>Gul"y</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Of or pertaining to gules; red.</def> "Those fatal <i>guly</i> dragons."

<i>Milton.</i>

<h1>Gum</h1> <Xpage=658>

<hw>Gum</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>gome</ets>, AS. <ets>gama</ets> palate; akin Co G. g<ets>aumen</ets>, OHG. <ets>goumo</ets>, <ets>guomo</ets>, Icel. <ets>g<?/mr</ets>, Sw. <ets>gom</ets>; cf. Gr. <?/ to gape.]</ety> <def>The dense tissues which invest the teeth, and cover the adjacent parts of the jaws.</def>

<cs><col>Gum rash</col> <fld>(Med.)</fld>, <cd>strophulus in a teething child; red gum.</cd> -- <col>Gum stick</col>, <cd>a smooth hard substance for children to bite upon while teething.</cd></cs>

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<hw>Gum</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To deepen and enlarge the spaces between the teeth of (a worn saw). See <er>Gummer</er>.</def>

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<hw>Gum</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>gomme</ets>, <ets>gumme</ets>, F. <ets>gomme</ets>, L. <ets>gummi</ets> and commis, fr. Gr. <?/, prob. from an Egyptian form <ets>kam<?/</ets>; cf. It. <er>gomma</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A vegetable secretion of many trees or plants that hardens when it exudes, but is soluble in water; <as>as, <ex>gum</ex> arabic; <ex>gum</ex> tragacanth; the <ex>gum</ex> of the cherry tree</as>. Also, with less propriety, exudations that are not soluble in water; <as>as, <ex>gum</ex> copal and <ex>gum</ex> sandarac, which are really resins</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>See <er>Gum tree</er>, <er>below</er>.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>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.</def> <mark>[Southern U. S.]</mark>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>A rubber overshoe.</def> <mark>[Local, U. S.]</mark>

<cs><mcol><col>Black gum</col>, <col>Blue gum</col>, <col>British gum</col>, etc.</mcol> <cd>See under <er>Black</er>, <er>Blue</er>, etc.</cd> -- <col>Gum Acaroidea</col>, <cd>the resinous gum of the Australian grass tree (<spn>Xanlhorrh\'d2a</spn>).</cd> -- <col>Gum animal</col> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld>, <cd>the galago of West Africa; -- so called because it feeds on gums. See <er>Galago</er>.</cd> -- <col>Gum animi or anim\'82</col>. <cd>See <er>Anim\'82</er>.</cd> -- <col>Gum arabic</col><cd>, a gum yielded mostly by several species of <spn>Acacia</spn> (chiefly <spn>A. vera</spn> and <spn>A. Arabica</spn>) growing in Africa and Southern Asia; -- called also <altname>gum acacia</altname>. East Indian gum arabic comes from a tree of the Orange family which bears the elephant apple.</cd> -- <col>Gum butea</col>, <cd>a gum yielded by the Indian plants <spn>Butea frondosa</spn> and <spn>B. superba</spn>, and used locally in tanning and in precipitating indigo.</cd> -- <col>Gum cistus</col>, <cd>a plant of the genus <spn>Cistus</spn> (<spn>Cistus ladaniferus</spn>), a species of rock rose.</cd>-- <col>Gum dragon</col>. <cd>See <er>Tragacanth</er>.</cd> -- <mcol><col>Gum elastic</col>, <col>Elastic gum</col></mcol>. <cd>See <er>Caoutchouc</er>.</cd> -- <col>Gum elemi</col>. <cd>See <er>Elemi</er>.</cd> -- <col>Gum juniper</col>. <cd>See <er>Sandarac</er>.</cd> -- <col>Gum kino</col>. <cd>See under <er>Kino</er>.</cd> -- <col>Gum lac</col>. <cd>See <er>Lac</er>.</cd> -- <col>Gum Ladanum</col><cd>, a fragrant gum yielded by several Oriental species of Cistus or rock rose.</cd> -- <col>Gum passages</col>, <cd>sap receptacles extending through the parenchyma of certain plants (<spn>Amygdalace\'91</spn>, <spn>Cactace\'91</spn>, etc.), and affording passage for gum.</cd> -- <col>Gum pot</col><cd>, a varnish maker's utensil for melting gum and mixing other ingredients.</cd> -- <col>Gum resin</col>, <cd>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.</cd> -- <col>Gum sandarac</col>. <cd>See <er>Sandarac</er>.</cd> -- <col>Gum Senegal</col><cd>, a gum similar to gum arabic, yielded by trees (<spn>Acacia Verek</spn> and <spn>A. Adansoni\'84</spn>) growing in the Senegal country, West Africa.</cd> -- <col>Gum tragacanth</col>. <cd>See <er>Tragacanth</er>.</cd> -- <col>Gum tree</col>, <cd>the name given to several trees in America and Australia</cd>: <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>The black gum (<spn>Nyssa multiflora</spn>), one of the largest trees of the Southern States, bearing a small blue fruit, the favorite food of the opossum.</cd> Most of the large trees become hollow. <sd>(b)</sd> <cd>A tree of the genus <spn>Eucalyptus.</spn></cd> See <er>Eucalpytus.</er> <sd>(c)</sd> <cd>The sweet gum tree of the United States (<spn>Liquidambar styraciflua</spn>), a large and beautiful tree with pointedly lobed leaves and woody burlike fruit. It exudes an aromatic terebinthine juice.</cd> -- <col>Gum water</col>, <cd>a solution of gum, esp. of gum arabic, in water.</cd> -- <col>Gum wood</col>, <cd>the wood of any gum tree, esp. the wood of the <spn>Eucalyptus piperita</spn>, of New South Wales.</cd></cs>

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<hw>Gum</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. &. p.</tt> <er>Gummed</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Gumming</er>.]</wordforms> <def>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.</def>

<blockquote>He frets likke a <b>gummed</b> velvet.Shak.

<h1>Gum</h1> <Xpage=658>

<hw>Gum</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To exude or from gum; to become gummy.</def>