- About to succumb to temptation, by gum! - Amber substance - Are singers holding varnish ingredient? - Conifer exudation - Conifer secretion - Erin’s chewed-up gum - Fir exudation
- An unidentified substance mentioned in the Bible (Gen.
ii. 12, and Num. xi. 7), variously taken to be a gum, a precious stone,
or pearls, or perhaps a kind of amber found in Arabia. - A gum resin of reddish brown color, brought from India,
Persia, and Africa.
- Pertaining to, or derived from, amber; specif.,
designating a dibasic acid, C/H/.(CO/H)/, first obtained by the dry
distillation of amber. It is found in a number of plants, as in lettuce
and wormwood, and is also produced artificially as a white crystalline
substance having a slightly acid taste.
- figure made of cels - A substance composed essentially of gun cotton and
camphor, and when pure resembling ivory in texture and color, but
variously colored to imitate coral, tortoise shell, amber, malachite,
etc. It is used in the manufacture of jewelry and many small articles,
as combs, brushes, collars, and cuffs; -- originally called xylonite.