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Luckily, I have a smaller back-up filter that continued humming along, so I just left it until this morning when I ungummed the works and got it going again.

Day in the Life of an Idiot lyda222 2009

It looked as if the glue had come ungummed, and then the tape had torn.

Ancient, Strange, and Lovely Susan Fletcher 2010

At the appropriate point in that pack, there was an ungummed, maroon rolling paper to remind customers, "When you've got 10 to go, just say Tally-Ho."

Paul Krassner: Getting High Down Under 2008

Then he took off his wig, and hastily ungummed a piece of paper that did duty as lining.

Scenes from a Courtesan's Life 2007

The chin would jerk up, the lips part, all breath would seem to be expelled from him in a long sigh; the eyes coming ungummed would emit a glassy stare; the tongue would move over the roof of the mouth and the lips; and an expression as of a cross baby would appear on the old face.

On Forsyte 'Change 2004

The waste silk is ungummed; that is, the gum is removed from the fibers by boiling with soap, by macerating or retting, or by chemical reagents.

Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades

In dyeing yarns, the silk is first ungummed and cleaned by boiling in soap and water, then washed in cold water.

Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades

This was tightly gummed to the fair dame, who was to have been exhibited 'in style' in a stylish house in Fourth street; but who was taken to Bellevue Hospital, to be 'ungummed,' as the

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

Of course, she was all of twenty-two, and so was certainly not an appropriate romantic interest for him, but she was fun to look at as she ungummed her eyes and worked the sleep out of her voice.

Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town Cory Doctorow

The consequence is, when I open three minutes after his scratch, I find you all ungummed and swimming, your beautiful handwriting bleared and smeared, so that no eye but mine could have read it.

An Englishwoman's Love-Letters Anonymous