gum

gum has 18 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 3.

Definitions

• n.. The dense tissues which invest the teeth, and cover the adjacent parts of the jaws.
• v. t.. To deepen and enlarge the spaces between the teeth of (a worn saw). See Gummer.
• 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.
• n.. See Gum tree, below.
• 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.
• n.. A rubber overshoe.
• 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.
• v. i.. To exude or from gum; to become gummy.
• n.. the tissue (covered by mucous membrane) of the jaws that surrounds the bases of the teeth
• n.. a preparation (usually made of sweetened chicle) for chewing
• n.. any of various trees of the genera Eucalyptus or Liquidambar or Nyssa that are sources of gum
• n.. wood or lumber from any of various gum trees especially the sweet gum