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Viscum :: Viscum (n.) Birdlime, which is often made from the berries of the European mistletoe..

Scumbling :: Scumbling (n.) In crayon drawing, the use of the stump..

Viscum :: Viscum (n.) A genus of parasitic shrubs, including the mistletoe of Europe..

Scummer :: Scummer (n.) An instrument for taking off scum; a skimmer.

Hig-taper :: Hig-taper (n.) A plant of the genus Verbascum (V. Thapsus); the common mullein. [Also high-taper and hag-taper..

Spumed :: Spume (n.) Frothy matter raised on liquids by boiling, effervescence, or agitation; froth; foam; scum..

Scummer :: Scummer (v. i.) To scumber.

Molluscum :: Molluscum (n.) A cutaneous disease characterized by numerous tumors, of various forms, filled with a thick matter; -- so called from the resemblance of the tumors to some molluscous animals..

Rum :: Rum (n.) A kind of intoxicating liquor distilled from cane juice, or from the scummings of the boiled juice, or from treacle or molasses, or from the lees of former distillations. Also, sometimes used colloquially as a generic or a collective name for intoxicating liquor..

Despume :: Despume (v. t.) To free from spume or scum.

Despumation :: Despumation (n.) The act of throwing up froth or scum; separation of the scum or impurities from liquids; scumming; clarification.

Scumbling :: Scumbling (n.) The color so laid on. Also used figuratively.

Discumbency :: Discumbency (n.) The act of reclining at table according to the manner of the ancients at their meals.

Foam :: Foam (n.) The white substance, consisting of an aggregation of bubbles, which is formed on the surface of liquids, or in the mouth of an animal, by violent agitation or fermentation; froth; spume; scum; as, the foam of the sea..

Despumate :: Despumate (v. t. & i.) To throw off impurities in spume; to work off in foam or scum; to foam.

Scum :: Scum (v.) refuse; recrement; anything vile or worthless.

Mistletoe :: Mistletoe (n.) A parasitic evergreen plant of Europe (Viscum album), bearing a glutinous fruit. When found upon the oak, where it is rare, it was an object of superstitious regard among the Druids. A bird lime is prepared from its fruit..

Skim :: Skim (v. t.) To clear (a liquid) from scum or substance floating or lying thereon, by means of a utensil that passes just beneath the surface; as, to skim milk; to skim broth..

Dross :: Dross (n.) The scum or refuse matter which is thrown off, or falls from, metals in smelting the ore, or in the process of melting; recrement..

Viscin :: Viscin (n.) A clear, viscous, tasteless substance extracted from the mucilaginous sap of the mistletoe (Viscum album), holly, etc., and constituting an essential ingredient of birdlime..

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