mouth gluen.

c1540 in A. Palmer Tudor Churchwardens' Accts. (1985) 59 Payde for parchment and mowth glewe xiiid.

1574 J. Baret Aluearie G sig. F.f.iv/2 Glew made of fish skinns, mouthglew. Icthyocolla.

1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia 238 Ichthiocolla... It's used in gellies: boiled with white Sugar it becommeth white, and is called mouth glew.

1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) at Glass Put some Mouth-glue into a Porringer upon the Fire, with some Spirit of Wine, and when the Glue is become liquid enough, rub the Pieces of Glass therewith, and they will re-unite.

1766 Compl. Farmer at Surveying These sheets may be pieced together with mouth-glew.

1865 Sci. Amer. 8 Apr. 224/3 Mouth Glue.—Best cake glue; dissolve in a little water, and brown sugar a small quantity, and some essence or juice of lemons, pour it into greased molds, and dry it. When used, it is wetted with the tongue, and rubbed on the paper to be joined.

1897 O. Firth Postage Stamps iv. 40 Some people, again, find ‘mouth-glue’ extremely useful.

1992 Orlando Sentinel Tribune (Nexis) 29 Sept. (Osceola Sentinel) 1 When..did you last have a good recipe for mouth glue?.. Dr. Chase's Recipes or Information for Everybody is a hard volume to track down these days.

?1605 J. Davies Wittes Pilgrimage sig. I4^v Yet in my Sconce ó make your Rendeuous All words that may wing Praise with Angels Plumes And Iudgement ioyne them fast with Arts Mouth-glue That they may hold past Time that all consumes.

1615 J. Stephens Ess. & Characters (new ed.) 368 By the vertue of a speciall mouth-glew, she cleaues readily to all acquaintance.

1700 W. Congreve Way of World v. i. 82 My contract went no further than a little Mouth-Glew, and that's hardly dry.

1858 Atlantic Monthly Aug. 381 Mouth-glue, however useful to stick slight matters together, is not the cement with which confederacies are bound to a common centre.