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verb

Gum v. t. To deepen and enlarge the spaces between the teeth of (a worn saw). See Gummer.

Gum v. t. (past & past part. gummed; pres. part. gumming)

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 like a gummed velvet."

To chew with the gums, rather than with the teeth.

gum up

(a)

To block or clog (a conduit) with or as if with gum; as, to gum up the drainpipe.

(b)

to interfere with; to spoil. (Slang)

Gum v. i. To exude or form gum; to become gummy.

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Etymology of 'Gummed'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Gummed" Quotes from Famous Books

... with, even if any one in the States to the northward will accept it, for I have split it open and written within it to Sir Henry Clinton the news I have to tell. Say to him that a few moments in water will serve to part the edges where they have been gummed together. I give you the note, that if you are caught, you may still find some means to send it on. But lest by mischance it should be lost or taken from you, and you should yet be able to reach New York, I have here the words I have written in cipher ...

— Janice Meredith • Paul Leicester Ford

... to uniform size by a cutting machine, (if that is not in the library equipment, any binder will do it for you) are next to be pasted or gummed, as preferred. This process is a nice one, requiring patience, care, and practice. Most libraries are full of books imperfectly labelled, pasted on in crooked fashion, or perhaps damaging the end-leaves by an over-use of paste, causing the leaves to adhere to the page ...

— A Book for All Readers • Ainsworth Rand Spofford

... everyone rushed round frantically finishing off their rolls of films. Lowson appeared and took one of the cook-house "staff" armed with kettles and more or less covered with smuts. It was rightly entitled, "The abomination of desolation"—when it came to be gummed into ...

— Fanny Goes to War • Pat Beauchamp

... greeneries Elysian He has known in tracts afar; Thus the enamouring fountains flow, Those the very palms that grow, By rare-gummed ...

— Sister Songs • Francis Thompson

... 'grand coup' and (a) a thread through the middle of the rib to hold feather in proper place. This feather is marked with the symbol of a grand coup in target shooting. This symbol may be drawn on an oval piece of paper gummed on the top ...

— Two Little Savages • Ernest Thompson Seton

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