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adj. - Not treated with adhesive glue.

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Usage examples (16)
  • It looked as if the glue had come ungummed, and then the tape had torn.
  • In dyeing yarns, the silk is first ungummed and cleaned by boiling in soap and water, then washed in cold water.
  • The waste silk is ungummed; that is, the gum is removed from the fibers by boiling with soap, by macerating or retting, or by chemical reagents.
  • At the appropriate point in that pack, there was an ungummed, maroon rolling paper to remind customers, "When you've got 10 to go, just say Tally-Ho."
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