red-gum

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See also: redgum and red gum

English

Etymology

From Old English reed gounde, from red + gund (“matter, pus”).

Noun

red-gum

  1. (medicine) An eruption of red pimples in early infancy; tooth rash; strophulus.
  2. rust on grain

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “red-gum”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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