Word Meanings - GLAIRY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

LENTOUS
Viscid; viscous; tenacious. Spawn of a lentous and transparent body. Sir T. Browne.
CREAMY
Full of, or containing, cream; resembling cream, in nature, appearance, or taste; creamlike; unctuous. "Creamy bowis." Collins. "Lines of creamy spray." Tennyson. "Your creamy words but cozen." Beau & Fl.
MUCILAGINOUS
1. Partaking of the nature of, or resembling, mucilage; moist, soft, and viscid; slimy; ropy; as, a mucilaginous liquid. 2. Of, pertaining to, or secreting, mucilage; as, the mucilaginous glands. 3. Soluble in water, but not in alcohol; yielding
GLAIRY
Like glair, or partaking of its qualities; covered with glair; viscous and transparent; slimy. Wiseman.
VISCOUS
Adhesive or sticky, and having a ropy or glutinous consistency; viscid; glutinous; clammy; tenacious; as, a viscous juice. -- Vis"cous*ness, n. Note: There is no well-defined distinction in meaning between viscous and viscid.
ALBUMINOUS; ALBUMINOSE
Pertaining to, or containing, albumen; having the properties of, or resembling, albumen or albumin. -- Al*bu"mi*nous*ness, n.
GELATINOUS
Of the nature and consistence of gelatin or the jelly; resembling jelly; viscous.
SUBGELATINOUS
Imperfectly or partially gelatinous.
EXALBUMINOUS
Having no albumen about the embryo; -- said of certain seeds.