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gutta-percha|ˌgʌtəˈpɜːtʃə|
Also -pertscha.
[ad. Malay getah percha, f. getah gutta2 + percha the name of the tree (sense 2), lit. ‘the gum of percha’.]
1. The inspissated juice of various trees found chiefly in the Malayan archipelago (see sense 2), now extensively used in the arts.
1845Athenæum 337 The Secretary described the substance called ‘gutta percha’. 1852Crawfurd Malay Dict. 50, Gâtah-pârcha, the inspissated juice of the pârcha tree, Isonandra gutta of Sir William Hooker; the guttah-percha of commerce. 1858Carpenter Veg. Phys. §335 A substance, closely resembling Indian-rubber, has lately excited considerable interest, and, under the name of Gutta Pertscha, is now brought into the markets of Europe in considerable quantities. 1870Emerson Soc. & Solit., Work & Days Wks. (Bohn) III. 65 No sooner is the electric telegraph devised, than gutta-percha, the very material it requires, is found. 1890H. Drummond in Life xv. (1899) 388 Blue star-fish like gutta-percha.
2. (Short for gutta-percha tree: see 3.) One of the trees that yield this juice, esp. Isonandra (or Dichopsia) Gutta (N.O. Euphorbiaceæ).
1860L. Oliphant Elgin's Mission China I. 27 Among them [Singapore trees] are the ebony, sapan, and eagle wood, but more valuable than all the gutta-percha. 1876Harley Mat. Med. (ed. 6) 671 Gutta-Percha is a handsome ever⁓green tree, native of Borneo, Sumatra, and others of the East India Islands.
3. attrib. and Comb., as gutta-percha-joint, gutta-percha-jointing, gutta-percha-merchant, gutta-percha-sheeting, gutta-percha-tree, gutta-percha-tube; gutta-percha-covered adj.; gutta-percha-tissue, ‘gutta-percha in a very thin leaf, used as a waterproof covering to dressings to prevent evaporation’ (Syd. Soc. Lex. 1886); gutta-percha-wire Telegraphy, wire covered with gutta-percha.
1876Preece & Sivewright Telegraphy 236 *Gutta-percha-covered wire.
Ibid. 241 The mean faults in *gutta percha joints..are [etc.].
Ibid. 236 Patience is another virtue in *gutta percha jointing, especially in the open air.
1851in Illustr. Lond. News 5 Aug. (1854) 118 Occupations of the people..*Gutta-percha merchant.
1876Preece & Sivewright Telegraphy 239 The *gutta percha sheeting, as supplied to jointers, should be cut into strips four inches wide.
1898P. Manson Trop. Diseases i. 30 Take one of the strips of *gutta-percha tissue.
1845Stocqueler Handbk. Brit. India (1854) 367 The *gutta-percha tree..is entitled to rank as a new genus.
1873C. H. Ralfe Phys. Chem. 182 The chambers communicate with each other, and into each of which the fluid potass is passed by means of *gutta percha tubes.
1876Preece & Sivewright Telegraphy 235 Out-of-door jointing of *gutta percha wires. |