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adv. By way of assumption. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being consumed; that may be destroyed, dissipated, wasted, or spent. “Consumable commodities.” Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not consumable; incapable of being consumed, wasted, or spent. Paley. -- In`con*sum"a*bly, adv. [1913 Webster]

a. [ Cf. F. présumable. ] Such as may be presumed or supposed to be true; that seems entitled to belief without direct evidence. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a presumable manner; by, or according to, presumption. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of, or admitting of, being resumed. Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Fine Arts) A kind of ornamental hard-glazed pottery made at Satsuma in Kiushu, one of the Japanese islands. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being subsumed. J. B. Stallo. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ F. sumac, formerly sumach (cf. Sp. zumaque), fr. Ar. summāq. ] [ Written also shumac. ] 1. (Bot.) Any plant of the genus Rhus, shrubs or small trees with usually compound leaves and clusters of small flowers. Some of the species are used in tanning, some in dyeing, and some in medicine. One, the Japanese Rhus vernicifera, yields the celebrated Japan varnish, or lacquer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The powdered leaves, peduncles, and young branches of certain species of the sumac plant, used in tanning and dyeing. [ 1913 Webster ]

Poison sumac. (Bot.) See under Poison. [ 1913 Webster ]

A thin, elastic, uniformly light-colored tobacco leaf, raised in Sumatra and extensively used for cigar wrappers. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]