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   Neckmold \Neck"mold`\, Neckmould \Neck"mould`\, n. (Arch.)
      A small convex molding surrounding a column at the jinction
      of the shaft and capital. --Weale.

English Dictionary: noch einmal von vorne by the DICT Development Group
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Neckmold \Neck"mold`\, Neckmould \Neck"mould`\, n. (Arch.)
      A small convex molding surrounding a column at the jinction
      of the shaft and capital. --Weale.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Noisome \Noi"some\, a. [For noysome, fr. noy for annoy. See
      {Annoy}.]
      1. Noxious to health; hurtful; mischievous; unwholesome;
            insalubrious; destructive; as, noisome effluvia.
            [bd]Noisome pestilence.[b8] --Ps. xci. 3.
  
      2. Offensive to the smell or other senses; disgusting; fetid.
            [bd]Foul breath is noisome.[b8] --Shak. -- {Noi"some*ly},
            adv. -- {Noi"some*ness}, n.
  
      Syn: Noxious; unwholesome; insalubrious; mischievous;
               destructive.
  
      Usage: {Noisome}, {Noxious}. These words have to a great
                  extent been interchanged; but there is a tendency to
                  make a distinction between them, applying noxious to
                  things that inflict evil directly; as, a noxious
                  plant, noxious practices, etc., and noisome to things
                  that operate with a remoter influence; as, noisome
                  vapors, a noisome pestilence, etc. Noisome has the
                  additional sense of disqusting. A garden may be free
                  from noxious weeds or animals; but, if recently
                  covered with manure, it may be filled with a noisome
                  smell.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Pepperidge \Pep"per*idge\, n. [Cf. NL. berberis, E. barberry.]
      (Bot.)
      A North American tree ({Nyssa multiflora}) with very tough
      wood, handsome oval polished leaves, and very acid berries,
      -- the sour gum, or common tupelo. See {Tupelo}. [Written
      also {piperidge} and {pipperidge}.]
  
      {Pepperidge bush} (Bot.), the barberry.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Tupelo \Tu"pe*lo\, n. [Tupelo, or tupebo, the native American
      Indian name.] (Bot.)
      A North American tree ({Nyssa multiflora}) of the Dogwood
      family, having brilliant, glossy foliage and acid red
      berries. The wood is crossgrained and very difficult to
      split. Called also {black gum}, {sour gum}, and {pepperidge}.
  
      {Largo tupelo}, [or] {Tupelo gum} (Bot.), an American tree
            ({Nyssa uniflora}) with softer wood than the tupelo.
  
      {Sour tupelo} (Bot.), the Ogeechee lime.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Gum \Gum\, n. [OE. gomme, gumme, F. gomme, L. gummi and commis,
      fr. Gr. [?], prob. from an Egyptian form kam[?]; cf. It.
      {gomma}.]
      1. 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.
  
      2. (Bot.) See {Gum tree}, {below}.
  
      3. 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. [Southern U. S.]
  
      4. A rubber overshoe. [Local, U. S.]
  
      {Black gum}, {Blue gum}, {British gum}, etc. See under
            {Black}, {Blue}, etc.
  
      {Gum Acaroidea}, the resinous gum of the Australian grass
            tree ({Xanlhorrh[d2]a}).
  
      {Gum animal} (Zo[94]l.), the galago of West Africa; -- so
            called because it feeds on gums. See {Galago}.
  
      {Gum animi or anim[82]}. See {Anim[82]}.
  
      {Gum arabic}, a gum yielded mostly by several species of
            {Acacia} (chiefly {A. vera} and {A. Arabica}) growing in
            Africa and Southern Asia; -- called also {gum acacia}.
            East Indian gum arabic comes from a tree of the Orange
            family which bears the elephant apple.
  
      {Gum butea}, a gum yielded by the Indian plants {Butea
            frondosa} and {B. superba}, and used locally in tanning
            and in precipitating indigo.
  
      {Gum cistus}, a plant of the genus {Cistus} ({Cistus
            ladaniferus}), a species of rock rose.
  
      {Gum dragon}. See {Tragacanth}.
  
      {Gum elastic}, {Elastic gum}. See {Caoutchouc}.
  
      {Gum elemi}. See {Elemi}.
  
      {Gum juniper}. See {Sandarac}.
  
      {Gum kino}. See under {Kino}.
  
      {Gum lac}. See {Lac}.
  
      {Gum Ladanum}, a fragrant gum yielded by several Oriental
            species of Cistus or rock rose.
  
      {Gum passages}, sap receptacles extending through the
            parenchyma of certain plants ({Amygdalace[91]},
            {Cactace[91]}, etc.), and affording passage for gum.
  
      {Gum pot}, a varnish maker's utensil for melting gum and
            mixing other ingredients.
  
      {Gum resin}, the milky juice of a plant solidified by
            exposure to air; one of certain inspissated saps, mixtures
            of, or having properties of, gum and resin; a resin
            containing more or less mucilaginous and gummy matter.
  
      {Gum sandarac}. See {Sandarac}.
  
      {Gum Senegal}, a gum similar to gum arabic, yielded by trees
            ({Acacia Verek} and {A. Adansoni[84]}) growing in the
            Senegal country, West Africa.
  
      {Gum tragacanth}. See {Tragacanth}.
  
      {Gum tree}, the name given to several trees in America and
            Australia:
            (a) The black gum ({Nyssa multiflora}), one of the largest
                  trees of the Southern States, bearing a small blue
                  fruit, the favorite food of the opossum. Most of the
                  large trees become hollow.
            (b) A tree of the genus {Eucalyptus.} See {Eucalpytus.}
            (c) The sweet gum tree of the United States ({Liquidambar
                  styraciflua}), a large and beautiful tree with
                  pointedly lobed leaves and woody burlike fruit. It
                  exudes an aromatic terebinthine juice.
  
      {Gum water}, a solution of gum, esp. of gum arabic, in water.
           
  
      {Gum wood}, the wood of any gum tree, esp. the wood of the
            {Eucalyptus piperita}, of New South Wales.
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