(n.) See Aam.

(n.) The buttock.

(v. i.,) To make murmuring or humming sound.

(n.) A humming noise.

(n.) The knave of trumps at gleek.

(n.) The dense tissues which invest the teeth, and cover the adjacent parts of the jaws.

(v. t.) To deepen and enlarge the spaces between the teeth of (a worn saw). See Gummer.

(n.) A vegetable secretion of many trees or plants that hardens when it exudes, but is soluble in water; as, gum arabic; gum tragacanth; the gum of the cherry tree. Also, with less propriety, exudations that are not soluble in water; as, gum copal and gum sandarac, which are really resins.

(n.) See Gum tree, below.

(n.) A hive made of a section of a hollow gum tree; hence, any roughly made hive; also, a vessel or bin made of a hollow log.

(n.) A rubber overshoe.

(v. t.) To smear with gum; to close with gum; to unite or stiffen by gum or a gumlike substance; to make sticky with a gumlike substance.

(v. i.) To exude or from gum; to become gummy.

(n.) Name.

(n.) The standard unit in the measure of electrical resistance, being the resistance of a circuit in which a potential difference of one volt produces a current of one ampere. As defined by the International Electrical Congress in 1893, and by United States Statute, it is a resistance substantially equal to 109 units of resistance of the C.G.S. system of electro-magnetic units, and is represented by the resistance offered to an unvarying electric current by a column of mercury at the temperature of melting ice 14.4521 grams in mass, of a constant cross-sectional area, and of the length of 106.3 centimeters. As thus defined it is called the international ohm.

(n.) A doctrine or theory; especially, a wild or visionary theory.

(n.) A kind of frock for children.

(n.) See Jamb.

(v. t.) To press into a close or tight position; to crowd; to squeeze; to wedge in.

(v. t.) To crush or bruise; as, to jam a finger in the crack of a door.

(v. t.) To bring (a vessel) so close to the wind that half her upper sails are laid aback.

(n.) A mass of people or objects crowded together; also, the pressure from a crowd; a crush; as, a jam in a street; a jam of logs in a river.

(n.) An injury caused by jamming.

(n.) A preserve of fruit boiled with sugar and water; as, raspberry jam; currant jam; grape jam.

(n.) A title anciently given to the pope, and later to other church dignitaries and some monastic orders. See Don, and Dan.

(n.) In Portugal and Brazil, the title given to a member of the higher classes.

(n.) A female parent; -- used of beasts, especially of quadrupeds; sometimes applied in contempt to a human mother.

(n.) A kind or crowned piece in the game of draughts.

(n.) A barrier to prevent the flow of a liquid; esp., a bank of earth, or wall of any kind, as of masonry or wood, built across a water course, to confine and keep back flowing water.

(n.) A firebrick wall, or a stone, which forms the front of the hearth of a blast furnace.

(v. t.) To obstruct or restrain the flow of, by a dam; to confine by constructing a dam, as a stream of water; -- generally used with in or up.

(v. t.) To shut up; to stop up; to close; to restrain.

(v. i.) To play upon a fiddle.

(a.) Neat; spruce.

(n.) The abdomen; the uterus; the womb.

(n.) Spot; blemish; harm; hurt.

(v. t.) To stain; to blemish; to harm; to corrupt.

(n.) An indolent, encysted tumor of the skin; especially, a sebaceous cyst.

(v. i.) To make a low, prolonged sound, like that of a bee in flight; to drone; to murmur; to buzz; as, a top hums.

(v. i.) To make a nasal sound, like that of the letter m prolonged, without opening the mouth, or articulating; to mumble in monotonous undertone; to drone.

(v. i.) To make an inarticulate sound, like h'm, through the nose in the process of speaking, from embarrassment or a affectation; to hem.

(v. i.) To express satisfaction by a humming noise.

(v. i.) To have the sensation of a humming noise; as, my head hums, -- a pathological condition.

(v. t.) To sing with shut mouth; to murmur without articulation; to mumble; as, to hum a tune.

(v. t.) To express satisfaction with by humming.

(v. t.) To flatter by approving; to cajole; to impose on; to humbug.

(n.) A low monotonous noise, as of bees in flight, of a swiftly revolving top, of a wheel, or the like; a drone; a buzz.

(n.) Any inarticulate and buzzing sound

(n.) The confused noise of a crowd or of machinery, etc., heard at a distance; as, the hum of industry.

(n.) A buzz or murmur, as of approbation.

(n.) An imposition or hoax.

(interj.) An inarticulate nasal sound or murmur, like h'm, uttered by a speaker in pause from embarrassment, affectation, etc.

(interj.) A kind of strong drink formerly used.

(interj.) Ahem; hem; an inarticulate sound uttered in a pause of speech implying doubt and deliberation.

(n.) Alt. of Lymhound

(n.) A ventilating chimney over the shaft of a mine.

(n.) A woody valley; also, a deep pool.

(n.) A chimney.

(n.) Mamma.

() An obsolete or colloquial contraction of the old form hem, them.

(n.) Power; force; energy; spirit; activity; vigor.

(n.) A large, esculent, farinaceous tuber of various climbing plants of the genus Dioscorea; also, the plants themselves. Mostly natives of warm climates. The plants have netted-veined, petioled leaves, and pods with three broad wings. The commonest species is D. sativa, but several others are cultivated.

(a.) Silent; not speaking.

(interj.) Be silent! Hush!

(n.) Silence.

(n.) A sort of strong beer, originally made in Brunswick, Germany.

(n.) Crooked; awry.

() A contraction of I am.