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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Guā'ia-cūm, n.

noun

(gwā'ya-kūm), n. [Sp. guayaco, from the language of Hayti.]

  1. (Bot.) A genus of small, crooked trees, growing in several of the West India islands.
  2. The resin of the Guaiacum officinale, lignumvitæ, or boxwood, found in the West Indies and Central America. It is of a greenish cast, and much used in medicine. [Written also guiac.]