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gumminess|ˈgʌmɪnɪs|
[f. gummy a.1 and a.2 + -ness.]
The quality or condition of being gummy, in various senses. Also quasi-concr., something gummy, a gummy concretion.
1600Surflet Country Farm i. xii. 59 To take away the filthines or gummines of the eies. 1665R. Kephale Medela Pestil. 61 Their gumminess excludeth infectious air. 1676Wiseman Surg. viii. iv. 33 One..came to me..with a gumminess on the tendons reaching to his fingers. 1726Leoni Alberti's Archit. I. 31/1 Ancient Aqueducts, whose Mouths, having contracted a kind of Gumminess, have seem'd incrusted all over with Stone. 1761Sterne Tr. Shandy III. iv, Had there been the least gumminess in my lining, by Heaven! it had all of it, long ago, been frayed and fretted to a thread. 1801W. Heberden Comm. lvi. (1806) 326 Accompanied with wateriness, or gumminess, where the tears are not supplied faster. 1825J. Nicholson Operat. Mechanic 394 The thread should have lost part of its heat and gumminess before it touches the bars of the reel. |