ungummed
- a word derived from gummed.
Example Sentences
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Beneath their very noses a local dealer was flaunting a sheet of 200 Mother's Day stamps, unperforated, ungummed, and autographed by James Aloysius Farley.
From Time Magazine Archive
The public ear has been grievously bent, and therefore any novel about jazzmen that is fresh, authentic and ungummed by cultism is an achievement.
From Time Magazine Archive
That's why none of the girls are allowed to have sealing wax, because all their letters are ungummed over a basin of hot water and read before going to post.
From God's Good Man by Corelli, Marie
In dyeing yarns, the silk is first ungummed and cleaned by boiling in soap and water, then washed in cold water.
From Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades by Dooley, William H. (William Henry)
The consequence is, when I open three minutes after his scratch, I find you all ungummed and swimming, your beautiful handwriting bleared and smeared, so that no eye but mine could have read it.
From An Englishwoman's Love-Letters by Housman, Laurence
