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.

verb. Present participle of gum.

noun. ineffectual chewing (as if without teeth)

"It consists in gumming together long strips of words which have already been set in order by someone else, and making the results presentable by sheer humbug."

chew  chewing  manduction  mastication  

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