gumdrop (gumdrop)

1. In phar., a confection composed of gum arabic and cane-sugar, Hawthorne, Hall of Fantasy. esteemed as a demulcent. U. S. Dispensatory. Profe or Espy was here, with a tremendous storm in a gum - elastic bag. Gum elemi. See elemi. - Gum euphorbium. See eu phorbium, 1.-Gum galbanum. See galbanum. - Gum guaiacum. See guaiacum.-Gum guttæ [F. gomme gutte). Same as gamboge. Gum juniper. Same as san darac.-Gum kino. Seo kino. - Gum lac. See lac. Gum ladanum or labdanum, and gum led on. See la danum.-Gum maguey, a translucent gum, partly soluble in water, obtained in Mexico from the Agave American a. Gum Mogadore. Same as Barbary gum.-Gum olibanum. See olibanum. - Gum opopanax. See opopanax.-Gum sagapenum. See sagapenum.-Gum sandarac. See sandarac. - Gum senegal, a kind of gum arabic. See above, under gum arabic. - Gum storax. See storax.-Gum succory, a gummy exudation from Chon drill a juncea, a cichoriaceous composite of central Europe, employed as a narcotic.- Gum thus. Same as frank in cense, 1.- Gum tragacanth. See tragacanth. - Hyawa gum, from Protium Guianense, a burseraceous tree of BritIsh Guiana.-Ivy-gum, a gum-resin obtained in the Levant and southern Europe from Hedera Heliz, and employed topically in medicine as an acrid astringent.-Jidda gum. Gedda gum. - Kuteera gum, pro Surt of Coch los perm a Computer us shrub of India, used as a substitute for tragacanth. - Mesquite gum, gum from the Prosopis julijiora, a small leguminous tree widely distributed through the warmer parts of America. It resembles gum arabic. Moist gum. Same -2. In confectionery, a similar preparation, often made with glucose and gelatin, and variously flavored. gum-dynamite (gum'dī"na-mīt), n. Same as explosive gelatin. See gelatin. gum-game (gum'gām), n. [See gum2, v. t., 2.] A hoodwinking trick; a guileful artifice; an imposition: as, to play the gum - game. [Slang, U. S.] from the resemblance of its contents to gum. gummatous (gum'a-tus), a. [ or soft tumor. The gummatous degeneration of the products of syphilitic infection is not always easily distinguished from the caseous. Encyc . Brit ., XVIII. 390. These symptoms and signs are due to gummatous infil- tration of the lung. Medical News, LII. 597. as dextrine .-Plastic gum, gutta-perch a. - Sa a gum, a product of Albizzia jastigiata , resembling tragacanth. tool or machine for gullet ing saws, or for en- hesive quality. [Rare.] =