It looked as if the glue had come ungummed, and then the tape had torn. From Wordnik.com. [Ancient, Strange, and Lovely] Reference
In dyeing yarns, the silk is first ungummed and cleaned by boiling in soap and water, then washed in cold water. From Wordnik.com. [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] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [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] Reference
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.". From Wordnik.com. [Paul Krassner: Getting High Down Under] Reference
Luckily, I have a smaller back-up filter that continued humming along, so I just left it until this morning when I ungummed the works and got it going again. From Wordnik.com. [Day in the Life of an Idiot] Reference
This was tightly gummed to the fair dame, who was to have been exhibited 'in style' in a stylish house in Fourth street; but who was taken to Bellevue Hospital, to be 'ungummed,' as the. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [An Englishwoman's Love-Letters] Reference
The chin would jerk up, the lips part, all breath would seem to be expelled from him in a long sigh; the eyes coming ungummed would emit a glassy stare; the tongue would move over the roof of the mouth and the lips; and an expression as of a cross baby would appear on the old face. From Wordnik.com. [On Forsyte 'Change] Reference
Then he took off his wig, and hastily ungummed a piece of paper that did duty as lining. From Wordnik.com. [Scenes from a Courtesan's Life] Reference
On the other letter he read Gus Trenor's name; and the flap of the envelope was still ungummed. From Wordnik.com. [House of Mirth] Reference
The other end -- the brown-paper end, which had come ungummed -- I intended to reserve for the match. From Wordnik.com. [The Holiday Round] Reference
If a print that you would colour be on a loofe ungummed paper, it may be prepared for colouring by walhing it over (once or moret as it may require) with a thin pafte made of wheat-flour, boiled in water, and letting it dry on between each walhing. From Wordnik.com. [Essays Upon Natural History, and Other Miscellaneous Subjects,] Reference
On the other letter he read Gus Trenor’s name; and the flap of the envelope was still ungummed. From Wordnik.com. [The House of Mirth] Reference
So he slowly ungummed his mouth. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Madonna] Reference
She ungummed one eye and read the clock. From Wordnik.com. [Conferences are Murder]
The remnants of their ungummed aureoles. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, Jan. 8, 1919] Reference
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