n. The soft tissues, consisting of a vascular mucous membrane, subjacent dense connective tissue, and periosteum, which cover the alveolar parts of the upper and lower jaws and envelop the necks of the teeth.n. Hence The edge of the jaw; the part of one of the jaws in which the teeth are set, or over which the tissues close after the loss of teeth: generally used in the plural: as, the toothless gums of old age.n. plural The grinders; molars.n. Insolent talk; “jaw”; insolence.n. Same as gummer.To use a gummer upon; gullet (a saw); widen the spaces between the teeth of (a worn saw) by punching or grinding.n. A product of secretion obtained by desiccation from the sap of many plants.n. A form of dextrine produced by roasting starch: specifically called artificial or British gum.n. One of various species of trees, especially of the genera Eucalyptus, of Australia, and Nyssa, of the United States.n. Same as gummingn. A bubble; a pimple. Compare red-gum, white-gum.n. plural India-rubber overshoes: more commonly called rubbers.n. A section of a hollow log or tree (usually a gum-tree) used to form a small well-curb, or to make a beehive. —To smear with gum; unite, stiffen, or clog by gum or a gum-like substance.To play a trick upon; humbug; hoodwink: said to be from the fact that opossums and racoons often elude hunters and dogs by hiding in the thick foliage of gum-trees.To exude or form gum. See gummingTo become clogged or stiffened by some gummy substance, as inspissated oil: as, a machine will gum up from disuse.n. The sorrel-tree, Oxydendrum arboreum.n. The cider-gum or cider-tree, Eucalyptus Gunnii.n. The water-tupelo (which see).n. The sweet gum, Liquidambar Styraciflua.n. The black- or sour-gum, Nyssa syivatica.
