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1684 in tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician xvi. 574/1 This Potion..takes away..all Mucosities of the Throat.

1694 W. Salmon Pharmacopœia Bateana i. xxiv. 863/1 Leaves of Coltsfoot gathered in a serene Air (cleansed from their Mucosity with a moist Cloath).

1753 Philos. Trans. 1751–2 (Royal Soc.) 47 461 He..observ'd, that the extremities of the madrepora were soft, and cover'd with a mucosity.

1834 E. Griffith et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom XII. 155 If we may judge from the great quantity of mucosity which is spread in general over the surface of the skin of the mollusca, we should believe that the mucous cryptæ there were very numerous.

1876 P. J. Van Beneden Animal Parasites & Messmates iv. 68 There are mucosities which are incessantly renewed.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 517 No jerks and multiple mucosities all over you.

1874 R. Brown Man. Bot. iii. iii. 338 All pollen, when first emitted from the anther, has a slight mucosity, and the smooth as well as the hispid grains have the power of secreting a viscid substance.

1892 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Mucosity, sliminess.

1989 Korean Jrnl. Plant Pathol. 5 223 Phenotypic characters such as virulence, antibiotic resistance, nutritional requirement, colony color and mucosity.

1990 Internat. Jrnl. Systematic Bacteriol. 40 434 The Mycoplana strains were divided into four groups..on the basis of DNA base composition, major hydroxy fatty acid composition, mucosity of colonies, [etc.].

1992 M. Leyner Et Tu, Babe (1993) vi. 166 It was pretty explicit. I know I heard the words ‘tart mucosity’.