glaireousadj.
/ˈɡlɛːriːəs/ Having the nature or appearance of glair.
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thickc888
toughc1000
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gluey1382
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gleiming1387
gummya1398
clammy1398
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viscosec1400
viscousc1400
emplastic?a1425
plastery?c1425
stiffc1430
clamc1440
engleimous?c1475
rawky1509
rich1535
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limy1552
strong1560
glutinous1576
cloggy1587
emplastical1590
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plasterish1610
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viscid1635
lentous1646
spiscious1655
melleous1656
salivarious1656
glutining1658
syrupical1659
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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
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Glareous.
1765 Universal Mag. 37 146/2 There is a glareous liquor.
1806 Knight in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 97 104 A glareous fluid, as Du Hamel has stated, exudes from the surface of the alburnum.
1819 H. Busk Vestriad i. 219 These glareous eyes Death's fingers glue.
1848 S. Maunder Treasury Nat. Hist. Gloss. 787/1 Glareous, viscous and transparent, like the white of an egg.
1882 Ogilvie's Imperial Dict. (new ed.) Glaireous, Glairous. [As distinct words.] So in later Dicts.
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