Dictionary entry

Gum (4)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Gum, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Gummed (gŭmd); p. pr. & vb. n.Gumming.] 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. Shak.