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▪ I. red gum, red-gum1
[Alteration of red-gownd, -gowm, after gum n.2 4.]
1. A papular eruption or rash (Strophulus intertinctus) incident to young children, esp. during dentition, consisting of red pimples and patches irregularly disposed on the skin. rank red gum, a virulent form of this (Strophulus confertus).
1597Gerarde Herbal 218 The leaues stamped and strained into milke..helpeth the red gumme and frets in children. 1598Sylvester Du Bartas ii. i. iii. Furies 531 Their heads are hid wth skalls; Their Limbs with Red-gums and with bloudy bals Of Menstruall humour. 1601Holland Pliny II. 127 A proper liniment..to annoint young children that haue the red gum and be all broken out. 1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 378 Red Gum, which besets our Children in Europe, is pernicious to Old Age here. 1749Phil. Trans. XLVI. 234 There appeared an Eruption all over his Skin, which was at first taken by the Nurse for the Red-Gum. 1796Jane Austen Sense & Sens. xxxvii, The child..was all over pimples... ‘Lord! my dear’, says I, ‘it is nothing in the world but the red-gum’. 1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) I. 36 A rash appears on the skin, usually the red-gum. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 586 Lichen strophulosus or strophulus, ‘red gum’, ‘teething rash’, usually regarded as a sweat rash.
2. A form of rust in grain. Also attrib.
1807Vancouver Agric. Devon (1813) 147 The burnt, red-gum, or cockle-eared, are diseases little, indeed almost wholly unknown. 1851J. M. Wilson Rural Cycl. s.v. Rust, The red-gum variety occurs only on the ear, and appears like gummy exudations.
▪ II. red gum, red-gum2
1. A reddish resinous substance exuded from the bark of various tropical or semi-tropical trees and shrubs, esp. that obtained from various Australian species of Eucalyptus.
1738Stibbs Voy. Gambia 267, I shall now describe the Pau de Sangue, or Blood-wood, so called from a red gum which issues from it. 1788J. White Voy. N.S. Wales (1790) 178 At the heart they are full of veins, through which an amazing quantity of an astringent red gum issues. 1865J. E. Tenison-Woods Discov. & Expl. Australia I. 42 The usual red gum was observed oozing out from the bark... This gum is a species of Kino.
2. A tree of one or other of the Australian species of Eucalyptus yielding a red gum, esp. E. camaldulensis or one of a group of closely related species; also, the wood of these trees.
1821Mart in Field Geog. Mem. N.S. Wales 316, I found also the red..and blue gum. 1846Haydon 5 Yrs. Australia Felix 33 Red gum, a wood which has of late years been exported to England in great quantities; it has all the properties of mahogany. 1870Tucker The Mute, etc. 85 Then the dark savage 'neath the red gum's shade Told o'er his deeds. 1889J. H. Maiden Useful Native Plants 429 Eucalyptus amygdalina... This Eucalypt has even more vernacular names than botanical synonyms... In Victoria it is one of the ‘Red Gums’. 1911E. M. Clowes On Wallaby ix. 249 Farther eastward iron bark and stringy bark prevail, and red gum follows the course of the Murray and its tributaries. 1920, etc. [see marri]. 1955M. R. Jacobs Growth Habits of Eucalypts vi. 219 The red gums form one of the most widespread and stable groups of the eucalypts.
3. U.S. The sweet gum, Liquidambar styraciflua, an important timber tree.
1839Southern Lit. Messenger V. 113/2 Dislodge the rackoon from its lofty hole in the red-gum tree. 1916E. T. Seton Woodcraft Man. 288 Sweet Gum, Star-Leaved, or Red Gum, Bilsted, Alligator Tree, or Liquidambar. 1942W. M. Harlow Trees Eastern U.S. 193 Now that veneered furniture has so largely replaced solid pieces, redgum wood has come into prominence.
4. attrib., as red-gum pitcher, red gum tree, red gum wood.
1790J. White Voy. N.S. Wales App. 231 The Red Gum Tree, Eucalyptus Resinifera. 1843Holtzapffel Turning I. 86 There is..a variety of a redder tint called red Gum⁓wood. 1868Carleton Austr. Nights 14 While she, the younger, went to fill Her red-gum pitcher at the rill. |