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

The quality of being glutinous.

To stick fast or cleave, as a glutinous substance does; to become joined or united; as, wax to the finger; the lungs sometimes adhere to the pleura.

Sticky; tenacious, as glutinous substances.

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.

To glue together; to unite by some glutinous or tenacious substance; to cause to adhere or to grow together. Bones . . . have had their broken parts conglutinated within three or four days. Boyle.

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…

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

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

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

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

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

a West Indian tree (Comocladia integrifolia) with purplish drupes. The sap of the tree is glutinous, and gives a persistent black stain. -- Maiden speech, the first speech made by a person, esp. by a new member in a public body. -- Maiden tower, the tower most capable of resisting an enemy.