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BRITISH GUM

\bɹˈɪtɪʃ ɡˈʌm], \bɹˈɪtɪʃ ɡˈʌm], \b_ɹ_ˈɪ_t_ɪ_ʃ ɡ_ˈʌ_m]\

Definitions of BRITISH GUM

1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
1895 - Glossary of terms and phrases

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Same as Dextrin.
Dextrin.

1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland

A brown, soluble substance, formed by heating dry starch, and used for stiffening calicoes, etc. It is also called Dextrine, from its power of rotating a polarized ray of light to the right [L. dextra].

1895 - Glossary of terms and phrases
By Henry Percy Smith

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