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, and having a ropy or glutinous consistency; viscid; glutinous; clammy; tenacious; as, a viscous juice. -- Vis"cous*ness, n.

Any viscous substance which causes bodies or parts to adhere.

To unite, or cause to adhere, as with glue or other viscous substance; to unite by causing an adhesion of substances.

A thick, viscous nitrogenous substance, which is the chief and characteristic constituent of white of eggs and of the serum of blood, and is found in other animal substances, both fluid and solid, also in many plants. It is soluble in water is coagulated by heat ad by certain chemical reagents. Acid albumin, a modifica…

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

t there are many imitations. It has a yellowish brown color, is translucent and hard, but viscous. It is used in medicinal plasters.

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.

State of being clammy or viscous.

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

Having the parts near each other; dense; solid; compact; as applied to bodies; viscous; tenacious; not volatile, as applied to liquids. The golden globe being put into a press, . . . the water made itself way through the pores of that very close metal. Locke.

A making thick or viscous; thickness; inspissation. [R.] Dr. H. More.

A viscous, sticky application; a spot smeared or dabed; a smear.

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

Of the nature and consistence of gelatin or the jelly; resembling jelly; viscous.

Any viscous, transparent substance, resembling the white of an egg.

A glairy viscous substance, which forms on the surface of certain mineral waters, or covers the sides of their inclosures; -- called also baregin.

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

A viscous, transparent substance. See Glair.

d is used as a cement for uniting substances. The name is also given to other adhesive or viscous substances. Bee glue. See under Bee. -- Fish glue, a strong kind of glue obtained from fish skins and bladders; isinglass. -- Glue plant (Bot.), a fucoid seaweed (Gloiopeltis tenax). -- Liquid glue, a fluid preparation…

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