viscidadj.
/ˈvɪsɪd/, U.S. /ˈvɪsᵻd/ 1. Of fluid or soft substances: Having a glutinous or gluey character; sticky, adhesive, ropy. (Cf. viscous adj. 1.)
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > viscosity > [adjective]
thickc888
toughc1000
cleavingc1350
gluey1382
gluish1382
gleiming1387
gummya1398
clammy1398
gleimy1398
viscosec1400
viscousc1400
emplastic?a1425
plastery?c1425
stiffc1430
clamc1440
engleimous?c1475
rawky1509
rich1535
clammish1543
limy1552
strong1560
glutinous1576
cloggy1587
emplastical1590
viscuous1603
plasterish1610
slaba1616
bound1635
viscid1635
lentous1646
spiscious1655
melleous1656
salivarious1656
glutining1658
syrupical1659
glairy1662
gummous1669
gummose1678
mellaginous1681
melligineous1684
pargety1684
sticky1688
sizy1691
dauby1697
syrupy1707
treacly?1734
glaireous1755
flabbyc1780
spissid1782
stodgy1823
waxy1835
teery1848
treacle-like1871
viscoid1877
slauming1904
gooey1906
gloopy1929
gunky1937
gungy1962
yucky1975
1635 R. Brathwait tr. M. Silesio Arcadian Princesse 235 I meane by sweatings and suffumigations to extract all those viscid and oily humours.
1657 Physical Dict. Viscid phlegm, clammy tough phlegm, roping like birdlime.
1682 N. Grew Anat. Plants ii. i. iii. 67 I call it a Balsame;..Yet not a Terebinth; because, nothing near so viscid or tenaceous as that is.
1742 W. Ellis London & Country Brewer (ed. 4) I. 46 By which the spirituous Particles are set loose and free from their viscid Confinements.
1777 G. Forster Voy. round World I. 104 Whenever we lamed any of them, they disgorged a quantity of viscid food.
1804 J. Abernethy Surg. Observ. 131 I could not see the surface [of the ulcer] for a very viscid discharge, which adhered to it like mucus.
1845 G. Budd On Dis. Liver 268 In persons who die of phthisis, the bile in the gall-bladder..is often very dark-coloured, and viscid.
1875 C. Darwin Insectivorous Plants i. 13 The secretion from the glands is extremely viscid.
2. Of surfaces: Covered with a glutinous or sticky secretion. Chiefly Botany of leaves.
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > viscosity > [adjective] > covered with viscous matter
limedc13..
honey-dewed1596
viscid1760
treacled1895
1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. iii. v. 178 Viscid, clammy; when they are smeared over with a Juice that is not fluid but tenacious, sticky.
1793 T. Martyn Lang. Bot. sig. X6 A Viscid or clammy leaf.
1812 S. Edwards New Bot. Garden I. 42 The panicle is upright and viscid.
1828 J. Stark Elements Nat. Hist. I. 421 Head..covered with large and hard plates, or a viscid skin.
1870 J. D. Hooker Student's Flora Brit. Islands 207 Senecio viscosus; annual, glandular-pubescent, viscid.
1874 J. Lubbock Wild Flowers iii. 164 Close behind the stigma is a projection which terminates in a very viscid disk.
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