How do you spell Gum
Available Definitions:
1) n. - The dense tissues which invest the teeth, and cover the adjacent parts of the jaws.
2) v. t. - To deepen and enlarge the spaces between the teeth of (a worn saw). See Gummer .
3) n. - 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.
4) n. - See Gum tree, below.
5) n. - 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.
6) n. - A rubber overshoe.
7) v. t. - 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.
8) v. i. - To exude or from gum; to become gummy.
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