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Word Meanings - GLAIRY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

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  • 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.

 

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