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Having the quality of cementing; tenacious; viscous; glutinous.

The quality of being glutinous; viscousness. [R.]

Of the nature of glue; resembling glue; viscous; viscid; adhesive; gluey.

An oily, viscous liquid, C3H5(OH)3, colorless and odorless, and with a hot, sweetish taste, existing in the natural fats and oils as the base, combined with various acids, as oleic, margaric, stearic, and palmitic. It is a triatomic alcohol, and hence is also called glycerol. See Note under Gelatin.…

The state or quality of being gummy; viscousness.

Gumminess; a viscous or adhesive quality or nature. [R.] Floyer.

Consisting of gum; viscous; adhesive; producing or containing gum; covered with gum or a substance resembling gum. Kindles the gummy bark of fir or pine. Milton. Then rubs his gummy eyes. Dryden. Gummy tumor (Med.), a gumma.

One of a series of artificial, organic bases, usually produced as thick viscous liquids by the action of ammonia on ethylene oxide. They have the properties both of alcohol and amines.

A fluid, or a viscous material or preparation of various kinds (commonly black or colored), used in writing or printing. Make there a prick with ink. Chaucer. Deformed monsters, foul and black as ink. Spenser.

Anything brought to a gelatinous condition; a viscous, translucent substance in a condition between liquid and solid; a stiffened solution of gelatin, gum, or the like.

Viscid; viscous; tenacious. Spawn of a lentous and transparent body. Sir T. Browne.

To smear with a viscous substance, as birdlime. These twigs, in time, will come to be limed. L'Estrange.

Smeared with, or consisting of, lime; viscous. "Limy snares.' Spenser.

or flowing with great freedom; as, benzine and mercury are mobile liquids; -- opposed to viscous, viscoidal, or oily.

Slimy; moist, and moderately viscous.

d as variously colored, translucent substances, which are soluble in hot water but become viscous on cooling.

A colorless viscous substance having a bitter-sweet taste.

The viscous material of an animal or vegetable cell, out of which the various tissues are formed by a process of differentiation; protoplasm.

In a ropy manner; in a viscous or glutinous manner.

capable of being drawn into a thread, as a glutinous substance; stringy; viscous; tenacious; glutinous; as ropy sirup; ropy lees.