GUMPTION

n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

Capacity; shrewdness; common sense. [Colloq.] One does not have gumption till one has been properly cheated. Lord Lytton.

2.
n.

The art of preparing colors. Sir W. Scott.

3.
n.

Megilp. Fairholt.

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