red-gum

See also: redgum and red gum

English

Alternative forms

• red gum
• red gown (archaic)

Etymology

Alteration (due to gum) of earlier red gown, reed gounde, from Middle English redgownd, redgound, radegound, radegund, equivalent to red +‎ gound (“pus, matter”).

Noun

red-gum

1. (medicine) A rash in infants marked by red or sometimes whitish papules surrounded by reddish halos and popularly associated with teething distress; strophulus.

   Synonym: tooth rash

2. rust on grain
3. Alternative form of redgum
4. Alternative form of red gum

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “red-gum”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)