Crossword clues for gummed
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gum \Gum\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gummed (g[u^]md); p. pr. & vb. n. Gumming.]
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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.
He frets like a gummed velvet.
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To chew with the gums, rather than with the teeth. gum up
To block or clog (a conduit) with or as if with gum; as, to gum up the drainpipe.
to interfere with; to spoil. [Slang]
Wiktionary
vb. (en-pastgum)
WordNet
See gum
adj. treated with adhesive gum
n. a preparation (usually made of sweetened chicle) for chewing [syn: chewing gum]
the tissue (covered by mucous membrane) of the jaws that surrounds the bases of the teeth [syn: gingiva]
any of various substances (soluble in water) that exude from certain plants; they are gelatinous when moist but harden on drying
cement consisting of a sticky substance that is used as an adhesive [syn: glue, mucilage]
wood or lumber from any of various gum trees especially the sweet gum [syn: gumwood]
any of various trees of the genera Eucalyptus or Liquidambar or Nyssa that are sources of gum [syn: gum tree]
Usage examples of "gummed".
A little square of card was now gummed to one side of apex, which after 8 h.
Removed quill and gummed a little square of card to apex, which after 8 h.
We have seen in the numbered experiments, that a little square of rather thick letterpaper gummed to the apex induced, though slowly, considerable deflection.
Therefore bits of wood were gummed on one side of several leaflets, but this produced no effect.
Soaked in oil from head to foot, their eyes gummed and blinded, they were men overcome by reaction, utterly spent and on the verge of collapse, so far gone that even their fear could not overcome their exhaustion.
Not that anyone would be when rubbing sleep from gummed eyelids and welcoming the unexpected caller at 6.
How this would be to my advantage I couldn't even begin to guess at the moment, my mind was so gummed up by weakness and exhaustion and the beating I had taken that coherent thought was beyond me.
It's just that what passes for my mind is so gummed up by cold and lack of sleep that I think it's stopped altogether.
I saw eyelids and lashes as gummed as my own, even beneath the brown forelock.
Over the neat script of the professional copyist were gummed countless bits of paper upon which were corrections in Monica's script, almost as neat.
The concert-master tells me that the conductor's room was knee-deep in gummed paper --"
Domdaniel dictated, Monica transcribed (those who have taken music from dictation know what fidgetty work it is) and Gnecchi gummed the freshly-written slips into their proper places on the music.
The sergeant sealed it twice: He first licked the gummed flap and then he put over that a strip of gummed paper.
Nothing but the phone, desk lamp and, strangely enough, a roll of gummed paper tape.
He took the roll of gummed paper tape from the desk, tore off a two-foot length, crossed the room and pasted it across the door and jamb, sealing us in.