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Tending to clag, or to form sticky lumps or clots; tenaciously sticky, adhesive.
Cohesive; hard to separate. Obsolete. rare.
Having the property of cohering; characterized by cohesion.
Of lime: pure, containing little silica or other impurity and hence producing a smooth, creamy mortar (cf. fat, adj. 5). Also (of sand)…