| 释义 |
gluish, a.|ˈgl(j)uːɪʃ|
[f. glue n. + -ish.]
Somewhat resembling glue; having some of the properties of glue.
1382Wyclif Exod. ii. 3 He..glewide it with glewishe cley. 1519W. Horman Vulg. 178 b, If it [earth] be gluishe..it is a token of a fatte grounde. 1574Newton Health Mag. 46 They loose muche of their toughe clamminesse and glewish humoure. 1601Holland Pliny II. 438 A fish there is named Icthyocolla, which hath a glewish skin. 1763Nat. Hist. in Ann. Reg. 91/2 The floor..was thick smeared with a glueish moisture. 1847in Craig; and in mod. Dicts.
fig.a1653Gouge Comm. Heb. iii. (1655) 59 This world hath..a gluish quality to hold them close to it.
Comb.a1722Lisle Husb. (1752) 177 A very thick-rinded, and cold glewish-floured barley.
Hence ˈgluishness, the quality of being gluish.
1608Topsell Serpents (1658) 655 Some part of amends made by the rare clammy glewishnesse of the same. |