What is the meaning of GUMMY. Phrases containing GUMMY
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An exclamation.
Black gunion is Black−American slang for a strong, gummy grade of marijuana.
Gummy is British slang for a toothless person.
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A triacid alcohol, related to glycerin, and obtained from certain styryl derivatives as a yellow, gummy, amorphous substance; -- called also phenyl glycerin.
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Pertaining to, or designating, a conjugate acid (called taurocholic acid) composed of taurine and cholic acid, present abundantly in human bile and in that of carnivora. It is exceedingly deliquescent, and hence appears generally as a thick, gummy mass, easily soluble in water and alcohol. It has a bitter taste.
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A gummy mucilaginous substance; -- called also bassorin, tragacanthin, etc.
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A copious gummy secretion of the humor of the eyelids, in consequence of some disorder; blearedness; lippitude.
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A gummy or gelatinous substance produced in certain plants by the action of water on the cell wall, as in the seeds of quinces, of flax, etc.
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A cloth smeared with melted wax, or with some gummy or glutinous matter.
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A red, gummy, coloring matter, extracted from the colorless juice of the Otaheite chestnut (Inocarpus edulis).
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A gummy liquor that exudes from embalmed flesh when heated; -- formerly supposed to have magical and medicinal properties.
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The state or quality of being gummy; viscousness.
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Consisting of gum; viscous; adhesive; producing or containing gum; covered with gum or a substance resembling gum.
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A tenacious, elastic, gummy substance obtained from the milky sap of several plants of tropical South America (esp. the euphorbiaceous tree Siphonia elastica or Hevea caoutchouc), Asia, and Africa. Being impermeable to liquids and gases, and not readly affected by exposure to air, acids, and alkalies, it is used, especially when vulcanized, for many purposes in the arts and in manufactures. Also called India rubber (because it was first brought from India, and was formerly used chiefly for erasing pencil marks) and gum elastic. See Vulcanization.
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To exude or from gum; to become gummy.
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A glucoside occurring in jalap (the root of a convolvulaceous plant), and extracted as a colorless, tasteless, gummy mass of powerful purgative properties.
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Gumlike, or composed of gum; gummy.
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A special organ of plants, usually minute and globular, which often secretes some kind of resinous, gummy, or aromatic product.
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An amorphous, gummy carbohydrate, found in Gelidium, agar-agar, and other seaweeds.
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A gummy composition spread over the surface of a metal to be etched, to prevent the acid from eating except where an opening is made by the needle.
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A disease of the eyelids, consisting in chronic inflammation of the margins, with a gummy secretion of sebaceous matter.
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Of, pertaining to, or obtained from, saccharine substances; specifically, designating an acid obtained, as a white amorphous gummy mass, by the oxidation of mannite, glucose, sucrose, etc.
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A gummy or mucilaginous tasteless substance obtained from the marigold or calendula, and analogous to bassorin.
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