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glairy, a.|ˈglɛərɪ|
Also 7 gleary, 8 gliry, 8–9 glary.
[f. glair n.1 + -y1.]
Of the nature of glair; viscid, slimy. Chiefly Path.
1662J. Chandler Van Helmont's Oriat. 196 The venal bloud being resolved by other poysons into a liquor Sunovie or Gleary water, poyson, jaundous excrement, &c. doth flow forth. 1737Bracken Farriery Impr. (1743) II. 216 The Quantity of brownish gliry Matter that ran out. 1741Monro Anat. Nerves (ed. 3) 26 A wounded Nerve yields a glairy Sanies. 1809Home in Phil. Trans. XCIX. 185 By mucus of animals, I mean a glary fluid. 1827W. Kennedy Poems 123 Two glairy eyes Masked by foul putrefaction were unveiled. 1848Carpenter Anim. Phys. i. (1872) 31 When a considerable quantity of it exists in a fluid (as in the white of the egg) it gives to it a glairy tenacious character. 1853Zoologist II. 3823 On raising the skin, a glairy appearance of the muscles and flesh (which was much wasted) presented itself. 1880Gray Struct. Bot. 115 A glairy secretion is poured out from numerous immersed glands.
Comb.1883J. E. Ady in Knowledge 15 June 354/1 Threads..coated over with a glairy-looking deposit [protoplasm].
Hence ˈglairiness, viscidity.
1866–7Livingstone Last Jrnls. (1873) I. ii. 45 A little glariness seemed to be present on the foreleg. |