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Sticky; tenacious, as glutinous substances.

The agglutinated seeds and husks of the legumes of a South American tree (Inga Marthæ). It is valuable for tanning leather, and as a dye.

A glutinous pomatum for the fair.

To smear with any viscous, glutinous matter; to bedaub; to soil. Besmeared with precious balm. Spenser.

A cloth smeared with melted wax, or with some gummy or glutinous matter. Linen, besmeared with gums, in manner of cerecloth. Bacon.

To clog, as with glutinous or viscous matter. A swarm of wasps got into a honey pot, and there they cloyed and clammed Themselves till there was no getting out again. L'Estrange.

Having the quality of being viscous or adhesive; soft and sticky; glutinous; damp and adhesive, as if covered with a cold perspiration.

To close with glutinous matter. [Obs.] Mortimer.

Agglutinant. -- n.

Smeary; viscous; glutinous; adhesive. "Dauby wax."

Fit to be applied as a plaster; glutinous; adhesive; as, emplastic applications.

tine (, n. Etym: [F. gélatine, fr. L. gelare to congeal. See Geal.] (Chem.) Animal jelly; glutinous material obtained from animal tissues by prolonged boiling. Specifically (Physiol. Chem.), a nitrogeneous colloid, not existing as such in the animal body, but formed by the hydrating action of boiling water on the colla…

Vegetable glue or gelatin; glutin. It is one of the constituents of wheat gluten, and is a tough, amorphous substance, which resembles animal glue or gelatin.

Viscous; glutinous; of the nature of, or like, glue.

pus (A. incisa, or breadfruit tree), sometimes used in making birdlime, on account of its glutinous quality.

An eel-like marine marsipobranch (Myxine glutinosa), allied to the lamprey. It has a suctorial mouth, with labial appendages, and a single pair of gill openings. It is the type of the order Hyperotpeta. Called also hagfish, borer, slime eel, sucker, and sleepmarken.

See Semiglutin.

A family of languages, mostly of the isolating type, although some are agglutinative, spoken in the great area extending from northern India in the west to Formosa in the east and from Central Asia in the north to the Malay Peninsula in the south.

th variable terminations or suffixes which were once independent words. English is both agglutinative, as, manlike, headache, and inflective, as, he, his, him. Cf. Agglutinative.

To daub or catch with glue or birdlime; to entangle with glutinous matter. [R.] Sir T. Browne.