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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A disease in trees bearing stone-fruits, as cherries, plums, apricots, peaches, and almonds.
  • noun The treatment of the prepared and etched lithographic stone with gum-water, to cause the untouched portions to resist the ink. See lithography.

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  • verb Present participle of gum.

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  • noun ineffectual chewing (as if without teeth)

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