GUMPTION

Gump″tion (?), n. [[OE. gom, gome, attention; akin to AS. geómian, gyman, to regard, observe, gyme care, OS. gomean to heed, Goth. gaumjan to see, notice.]] 1. 1. Capacity; shrewdness; common sense.
One does not have gumption till one has been properly cheated. Lord Lytton. 2. 2. (Paint.) (a) The art of preparing colors. Sir W. Scott.
(b) Megilp. Fairholt.