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

A disease in which there is a perpetual and insatiable appetite for food; a diseased and voracious appetite.

iscous; glutinous; also, covered or daubed with slime; yielding, or abounding in, slime. Slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea. Coleridge.

a. It burrows in the ground, and feeds entirely on ants, which it catches with its long, slimy tongue.

A lump or mass, especially of earth, turf, or clay. "Clods of a slimy substance." Carew. "Clods of iron and brass." Milton. "Clods of blood." E. Fairfax. The earth that casteth up from the plow a great clod, is not so good as that which casteth up a smaller clod. Bacon.

A concretion or coagulation; esp. a soft, slimy, coagulated mass, as of blood; a coagulum. "Clots of pory gore." Addison. Doth bake the egg into clots as if it began to poach. Bacon.

Composed of clots or clods; having the quality or form of a clot; sticky; slimy; foul. "The clotted glebe." J. Philips. When lust . . . Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion. Milton.

any creeping thing. Standing waters are most unwholesome, . . . full of mites,creepers; slimy, muddy, unclean. Burton.

To cover; to spread; to smear. "Boats . . . sewed together and done over with a kind of slimy stuff like rosin." De Foe. -- To do to death, to put to death. (See 7.) [Obs.] -- To do up. (a) To put up; to raise. [Obs.] Chaucer. (b) To pack together and envelop; to pack up. (c) To accomplish thoroughly. [Colloq.] (d) T…

Like glair, or partaking of its qualities; covered with glair; viscous and transparent; slimy. Wiseman.

The state or quality of being limy.

Muddy; slimy; thick. Sir T. Browne.

Musty; moldy; slimy; mucous. -- Mu"cid*ness, n.

Partaking of the nature of, or resembling, mucilage; moist, soft, and viscid; slimy; ropy; as, a mucilaginous liquid.

The quality or state of being mucous or slimy; mucousness.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, mucus; slimy, ropy, or stringy, and lubricous; as, a mucous substance.

Slimy; moist, and moderately viscous.

A gelatinous or slimy substance found in certain algæ and other plants.

A rich slimy deposit in salt marshes and along the seashore, sometimes used as a manure; -- called also sea ooze.

That which is slimy or viscous; moist earth; mud; also, a puddle. [Obs.] Evelyn.