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a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Isa. xli. 7 Seiende to the glyu, It is good.

c1425 Seven Sag. (P.) 1232 He sette a deppe caudron of bras, A manere of glowe he dyde thare-inne.

1477 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Hist. Jason (1913) 108 And with this glue thou shalt anoynte the mosels of thise two meruayllous booles.

1607 G. Markham Cavelarice vi. Ded. to Ld. P. Herbert Whilst the glew of Lime and Simant shal knit stones together, so long in our house wil be held their memories.

1731 J. Arbuthnot Ess. Nature Aliments vi. 86 The Flowers of Grains mix'd with Water will make a sort of Glue.

1876 W. H. Preece & J. Sivewright Telegraphy 15 (note) The marine glue, patented by Jeffrey in 1842, is formed by dissolving one pound of caoutchouc in four gallons of naphtha... Two parts of shellac are then added to one part of this mixture.

1842 Brit. Patent 9323 (1856) 2 The composition or glue which I use I designate a vegetable glue, and I call it ‘Jeffery's marine glue’, or my ‘marine glue’.

1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm III. 1169 Perhaps nothing could better effect this purpose, than that substance lately brought before the public—the marine glue.

1889 G. M. Hopkins Exper. Sci. xiii. 297 It consists of a metallic tank..having in its upper and lower sides glass windows, formed of cover glasses set in recesses and secured by marine glue.

1934 Ecol. Monogr. 4 53 This was accomplished by cementing the shell of the larva to a glass slide, with a thin solution of marine glue.

1971 Country Life 27 May 1318/3 Marine glue, a mixture of shellac and india rubber, such as was used on wooden ships.