As they have a tendency to gummingand canker, the knife should be used as little as possible, but where pruning is necessary, let it be done in the summer.
If gumming occurs, cut away the diseased parts and apply Stockholm tar to the wounds.
Here their guide showed them the method ofgumming the stamps and the curious apparatus used for the purpose.
As the method of gumming stamps used by the various bank-note companies has been a carefully guarded and secret process, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing has been forced to invent its own machine for this purpose.
It was at the Court of Louis XV of France that the practice of gumming small pieces of black taffeta on the cheeks originated, the patches soon afterwards becoming common in this country.
These are simply produced by gumming a mask, made of black or yellow paper, with an oval or other-shaped aperture, on to the negative, the mask preserving the part it covers white.
It may be fixed in its position bygumming the corners near the lower edge of the plate.
The picture of the host and hostess busying themselves in gumming together the torn letters of their departed guest struck me as one of the funniest things I could remember.
Even in those early days when they lived in four little rooms above a grocer's shop, I recollect that he insisted upon gumming up every chink of one bedroom for fear of some imaginary infection.
In all gumming use plenty of gum, but let the greater part be on the side hid from view.
She was always with the sick girl, for now her mother was nursed by her sister, and dame Hannah had obtained permission for her to work at home in gumming the papyrus-strips together.
Gumming is much more prevalent in the far West than in the East but is to be found wherever stone-fruits are grown.
This excessive gummingis a secondary effect of injuries caused by fungi, bacteria, insects, frost, sunscald, and mechanical agencies.
In order to make a long carriage like a real train a child suggested gumming two match-boxes together, end to end.
Before folding andgumming the top column, or lantern, together, windows must be cut out.
It can be weighted at H bygumming several strips of cardboard across or by affixing sealing-wax.
For this purpose two or three match-box covers can be fastened together by covering them with white paper (marked to represent the boards of a platform) and gumming them to a piece of cardboard, A B C D.
The chair must be strengthened by gumming H to C and G to E.
Note too, that Browne is cheerful about mounting some insects by gumming their feet (tarsi) to card.
The gumming of a saw should always be performed before the sharpening, and the sharpening before the setting.
For free cutting without gumming on broad surfaces } Medium grain and on iron, steel, or brass.
From stiffening the plate at the throats of the teeth when gumming the saw, an effect that is aggravated by using a dull punch.
After gumming the saw a few times the teeth must become regular.
The card of large specimens will often curl upwards in drying, owing to the amount of damp: to counteract this, the lower face of the card may be washed with a wet brush, just before gumming its surface.
So Etienne set about the task, replacing the broken ribs and sheathing, sewing on patches and gumming the strained seams.
Gumming as a rule was done with clear spruce gum tempered by repeated meltings.
The ends, regardless of the style of sewing used, were more readily made tight by gumming than the other seams in a bark canoe.
Most of those which require gumming or fitting together are the work of man's hands alone.
There every one is busy; one cutting out pieces of paper of a given shape, one whittling pieces of wood to fit together, one gumming up the various parts, till the whole toy is finished and added to a growing pile.
We often found that when a girl came in to learn stamping she was set to run about the warehouse or to do gumming for the first year.
The Indians were again sent forward in pursuit of game; and some time being employed in gumming the canoe, we did not embark till half past five, and at nine we landed to wait the return of the hunters.
Do this by stretching out the sides of the dress skirt and gumming the material to each wrist.
Cover both pasteboard ends with stout paper by gummingthe paper over and down on the outside top edge of the pasteboard points.
You look so far into the future you're always gumming up the present.
We've all read the list of creditors, and you're only gummingup the game.
We were delayed some time at the Chutes gumming the canoes.
Were detained 2 hours gumming the boats,--had the sails up while the wind lasted in the morning and evening.
We were detained some time in the morning gumming the canoe, after which we continued our route & encamped in the evening near the lower end of Pendent Oreilles Lake.
The men were employed the whole day gumming the canoes & had not the Indians favored us with the lend of their kettles to boil pitch it would have taken another day to finish their business.
Notwithstanding that the canoes were gummed yesterday evening an hour was lost gumming Chala's one shortly after we started.
Set out at 4 oclock and arrived at the Flat Head River[133] at noon & immediately commenced gumming the canoes which occupied the whole afternoon and is not yet entirely completed.
The men were employed till it was dark gumming the canoes we are going to take.
As she spun she moved slowly from spoke to spoke, drawing the new rope with her and gumming it firmly to each spoke.
Then she made several more, fastening them all together in the middle andgumming them tightly to twigs at the ends, until at last the foundation of the web was made.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gumming" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
