Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Made of or resembling gum.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of the nature or quality of gum; viscous; adhesive.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Gumlike, or composed of gum; gummy.
- adjective (Med.) Of or pertaining to a gumma.
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- adjective
gum -like, or composed of gum; gummy - adjective Of or pertaining to a
gumma .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Now in ordinary cases, that is, when I am only stupid, and the thoughts rise heavily and pass gummous through my pen —
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Now in ordinary cases, that is, when I am only stupid, and the thoughts rise heavily and pass gummous through my pen —
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(I should be glad to hear if there is such a book, with a potent remedy for just common dulness -- the usual opaque, gummous, slow, thick, or fat head.)
Old Junk 1915
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Amber! humph! here it is, ` A yellow transparent substance of a gummous or bituminous consistence, but of a resinous taste, and a smell like oil of turpentine; chiefly found in the Baltic sea or the coast of Prussia. '
Newton Forster The Merchant Service Frederick Marryat 1820
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_Mildew_ or _Blight_, whereby the parts of the leaves grow scabby, or putrify'd, as it were, so as that the moisture breaks out in little scabs or spots, which, as I said before, look like little knobs of a red gummous substance.
Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Robert Hooke 1669
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Of the gummous exsudation, or small transparent Pearls, discovered with a _Microscope_ in several others.
Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Robert Hooke 1669
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With transparent copy crystal bottle stopper in Swarovski crystals wholesale, except for the table in the decoration, elegant swarovski crystal hoop earrings and moving for various bottles brings gummous festival atmosphere.
VInvesting.com 2010
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It does not seem to be of a gummous nature, for it is insoluble in water, but appears to be rapidly dissolved by alcohol.
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_August_, and _September_ (when any of the green leaves of _Roses_ begin to dry and grow yellow) observ'd many of them, especially the leaves of the old shrubs of _Damask Roses_, all bespecked with yellow stains; and the undersides just against them, to have little yellow hillocks of a gummous substance, and several of them to have small black spots in the midst of those yellow ones, which, to the naked eye, appear'd no bigger then the point of a Pin, or the smallest black spot or tittle of Ink one is able to make with a very sharp pointed Pen.
Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Robert Hooke 1669
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