Definition of Gum

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Definition of Gum

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The dense tissues which invest the teeth, and cover the adjacent parts of the jaws.

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

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.

See Gum tree, below.

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.

A rubber overshoe.

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.

To exude or from gum; to become gummy.

Alt. of copal

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Gum Quotations

I had a stick of CareFree gum, but it didn't work. I felt pretty good while I was blowing that bubble, but as soon as the gum lost its flavor, I was back to pondering my mortality.
Mitch Hedberg

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
Frank Lloyd Wright

I go from stool to stool in singles bars hoping to get lucky, but there's never any gum under any of them.
Emo Philips

I was in a bar the other night, hopping from barstool to barstool, trying to get lucky, but there wasn't any gum under any of them.
Emo Philips

Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time.
Lyndon B. Johnson

This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.
Elbert Hubbard

She can't even chew gum and walk in a straight line, let alone write a book.
Liam Gallagher

I pop gum. My parents get so annoyed with me. I know my dad wishes he never taught me how to do that.
Hilary Duff

On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the principle of the chewing gum dispenser.
Cecil Beaton

Gum Translations

gum in Dutch is tandvlees
gum in French is gomme, gencive
gum in German is Gummi
gum in Portuguese is gengiva
gum in Swedish is gummi, gummera

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