单词 | mucilage |
释义 | mucilagen. 1. a. In singular and †plural. A viscid preparation made from the seeds, roots, or other parts of certain plants by soaking or heating them in water, used medicinally in soothing poultices, tisanes, etc. Later also: a viscid aqueous solution of any of certain gums or starches.Frequently preceded by the name of the parent plant or substance, or (formerly) with of.starch mucilage: see starch n. Compounds 3. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines of specific form > gums and viscid products > [noun] guma1382 mucilagea1400 mummya1400 mummia?a1425 emulsion1612 mucage1657 a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 245 (MED) Tempere hem wiþ muscilage of fenigrec. ?c1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Paris) (1971) 154 (MED) Auycen lisseþ þe akþe with opium. And if þe muscilage of psilium were medled þerwiþ, it were a perfite þing. ?a1547 Ten Recipes Henry VIII in Vicary's Anat. Bodie of Man (1888) App. ix. 221 Put in x. vnces of the saide muscellage. 1575 G. Turberville Bk. Faulconrie 222 A mucillage of Psillin. 1681 Table of Hard Words in S. Pordage tr. T. Willis Remaining Med. Wks. Mucilage, thick boiling up of a thing to a gelly, or thick consistency. 1746 H. Pemberton tr. Dispensatory Royal Coll. Physicians 349 Oil of Mucilages. 1747 J. Wesley Primitive Physick 115 Boil Comfry Roots to a thick Mucilage. 1818 H. T. Colebrooke On Import Colonial Corn 130 Coagulated mucilage..from..arrow-roots, cassada, smilax, orchideous roots and scitamineous. 1842 E. A. Parnell Elements Chem. Anal. (1845) 37 The mucilage may be prepared by rubbing common starch with cold water. 1887 C. A. Moloney Sketch Forestry W. Afr. 282 Urena lobata, L.—A common Tropical weed, used medicinally as a mucilage. 1927 A. C. Parker Indian How Bk. iv. xlviii. 218 Children were given the mucilage of slippery elm mingled with calamus or wintergreen for their stomach ills. 1989 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 275/2 Acacia and tragacanth mucilages are..used to aid in suspending insoluble solids in liquids. 1992 D. J. Mabberley Trop. Rain Forest Ecol. (ed. 2) 206 Seeds are soaked overnight..and used as a febrifugal mucilage. b. A viscid material naturally present in the seeds, roots, or other parts of plants and in many bacteria, algae, and fungi, which swells but does not dissolve in water; any of the numerous polysaccharides or proteoglycans of which such material is composed. Also (now rare): any of various plant gums or starches. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > plant substances > [noun] > gum or resin resina1382 resin guma1382 gumc1385 mucilage1682 mucus1788 dammaran1864 1682 N. Grew Anat. Plants iv. iii. i. 181 Out of all these Sap-Vessels, issues a transparent and viscous Mucilage. 1785 M. Cutler in Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts & Sci. 1 470 The whole plant is mucilaginous, but the mucilage abounds most in the roots. 1807 J. E. Smith Introd. Physiol. & Systematical Bot. 70 The most distinct secretions of vegetables require to be enumerated..Gum or mucilage, a viscid substance..is very general. 1807 T. Thomson Syst. Chem. (ed. 3) II. 293 He concluded that mucilage had been present; for mucilage is composed of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. 1884 F. O. Bower & D. H. Scott tr. H. A. de Bary Compar. Anat. Phanerogams & Ferns 510 In other woods..a transformation into disorganised masses of mucilage and gum takes place. 1900 B. D. Jackson Gloss. Bot. Terms 164/1 Mucilage, vegetable gelatine belonging to the amylose group of carbohydrates. 1934 C. C. Steele Introd. Plant Biochem. x. 99 Mannans can also be isolated from many of the plant mucilages. 1965 P. Bell & D. Coombe tr. Strasburger's Textbk. Bot. (new ed.) 54 In species of Prunus the individual layers of the cell wall become converted successively to mucilage. 1992 Canad. Jrnl. Bot. 70 838 There were marked textural differences between the mucilages on different structures that may also indicate differences in their composition. 1995 Independent 14 Mar. 23/2 They [sc. cyanobacteria] produced mucilage, embedded within which were other types of bacteria that were able to break down the oil. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > organic chemistry > other substances > [noun] > substances in gums > others bassorin1830 mucilage1857 1857 W. A. Miller Elements Chem. III. 83 Mucilage or bassorin is a modification of gum which is insoluble in water. d. Chiefly North American. An adhesive consisting of an aqueous solution; gum, glue. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > adhesive > [noun] > other adhesives mucilage1859 liquid glue1875 seccotine1894 tire-cement1894 superglue1937 Araldite1946 bioadhesive1967 Blu-Tack1972 cyanoacrylate1977 1859 La Crosse (Wisconsin) Daily Union 15 Oct. 3/3 Mucilage, sealing wax, playing cards. 1895 Argosy Sept. 588/1 The cheap mucilage used has turned them yellow. 1912 J. Sandilands Western Canad. Dict. & Phrase-bk. (at cited word) One must not speak of gum in Canada; it is always mucilage. 1922 S. Lewis Babbitt i. 9 Stamps which had lost their mucilage. 1936 Golden Jubilee Catal. (Sears, Roebuck & Co.) 726/2 Mucilage with Rubber Spreader Top. 1963 K. H. Seibel Joyful Christmas Craft Bk. i. 12 Quick-drying Elmer's Glue-All is better than mucilage. 1991 G. Keillor WLT: Radio Romance i. 2 They put spit in his water glass and pelted him with food and poured mucilage in his shoes. 2. A viscid fluid in an animal's body, or secreted by an animal; esp. mucus; (also) synovial fluid. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > secretory organs > secretion > [noun] > fluid secretion > viscous fluid slime?c1225 mucilage?a1425 viscidityc1720 ?a1425 MS Hunterian 95 f. 114v (MED) Þu mowe clense þe nose wiþin of muscillage & quiture & alle oþere foule þing þat cummeþ oute of þe nose. c1475 ( Surg. Treat. in MS Wellcome 564 f. 88v (MED) Out of summe ioyntis renneþ myche mussillage, þe which is þe myȝt and þe vertu of þe senewis. 1574 G. Baker tr. Composition Oleum Magistrale sig. Niiv The excrements whiche doo avoid is a glittig Musceledge, thin or watrish humor, which dooth commonly folow in these kindes of wounds. 1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique i. xii. 58 The muscilage of shell snailes. 1691 C. Havers Osteol. Nova 201 The Liquor separated by them [sc. the mucilaginous glands] is a Mucilage, which is almost like the white of an Egg. 1708 J. Keill Acct. Animal Secretion 35 The most viscid Secretions, such as the Mucilage of the Joints, are separated at the greatest Distance from the Heart. 1718 J. Chamberlayne tr. B. Nieuwentyt Relig. Philosopher I. iv. 44 The Mucilage or Slime of the Stomach. 1802 W. Paley Nat. Theol. vii. 92 The slippery mucilage which lubricates the joints. 1831 R. Knox tr. H. Cloquet Syst. Human Anat. (ed. 2) 566 M. Vauquelin thinks that three substances form the base of the cerumen: a fat oil, an albuminous animal mucilage, and a colouring matter. 1927 F. Balfour-Browne Insects iii. 72 The so-called ‘caddis fly’..lays its eggs beneath the surface, and they are each embedded in a sphere of mucilage. 1991 C. Tudge Global Ecol. (BNC) 18 Mussels have cilia on their gills which shift a stream of mucilage which in turn traps nutritious detritus. 3. In extended use: a viscous mass, a pulp, a mush; a thickened fluid. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > viscosity > [noun] > viscous substance paste1390 gummosityc1400 gleimc1440 glaira1529 viscosity1540 plaster1588 emplastic1597 batter1601 starcha1627 mucilage1639 viscus1643 grume1718 syrup1838 sticky1851 goo1903 gloop1927 goop1930 glop1945 ick1947 gunge1969 1639 G. Plattes Discov. Infinite Treasure 38 I would have your Moats and standing Pooles as placed, that all the Urine..of your Stables, beast-houses..[etc.] may descend unto it..this fat Musselage being apt to be carried in the belly of the Water at Land-floods, hath caused the valleys to be..fat and fertile. 1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ iv. 56 You will finde it difficult to retain your Sheeps-dung water..for the Sheeps-dung wholly dissolves, which doth so thicken the water, and convert it into a mucilage. 1692 R. Bentley Boyle Lect. iv. 29 A mucilage of bruised Spiders. 1766 Museum Rusticum 6 318 To pound their bodies and eggs together into one common mucilage. 1799 Trans. Soc. Promotion Agric., Arts, & Manuf. (U.S.) 1 iv. 62 The calcarious base of gypsum after it has parted with its sulphuric acid, unites with the muriatic acid, with which it is known to form a mucilage which the first rain will carry off. 1812 J. J. Henry Accurate Acct. Campaign against Quebec 96 The meat required no cutting, as it was reduced to a musilage, or at least to shreds. 1825 Examiner 1 May 271/2 Their dramatic dialogue is..a mucilage of sentiment without natural bones or substance. 1950 D. Welch Voice through Cloud i. 8 My eyes were swimming in a sort of gum mucilage. 1978 M. S. Peck Road Less Traveled iii. 213 I do not understand how educated people can actually enjoy such putrid mucilage or even call it music. 1996 Entertainm. Weekly 9 Feb. 57/1 The animated version of The Tell-Tale Heart..scared the mucilage out of me when I saw it 25 years ago. Compounds C1. a. mucilage bottle n. ΚΠ 1864 Sci. Amer. 20 Feb. 124/2 [Patent.] Brush for mucilage bottles. 1903 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 14 96 He affirmed that his father had on the desk beside his round ink bottle also a square mucilage bottle. 1981 R. Kelly Spiritual Exercises 21 If nostalgia, then for the lips of mucilage bottles..did get crusted closed with midwinter fever. b. mucilage-containing adj. ΚΠ 1884 F. O. Bower & D. H. Scott tr. H. A. de Bary Compar. Anat. Phanerogams & Ferns 137 This plant has mucilage-containing sacs and cavities. 1948 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 35 456/2 Tanniferous and mucilage-containing cells are characteristic of the ovary. 1997 Bot. Jrnl. Linn. Soc. 125 211 The ground tissue consists of larger mucilage-containing cells and smaller assimilatory cells. C2. mucilage duct n. Botany a vessel or canal by which mucilage is conveyed. ΚΠ 1896 Bot. Gaz. 21 141 This substance was used..for fixing various Laminariaceæ for the purpose of investigating the structure and development of the mucilage ducts. 1955 G. M. Smith Cryptogamic Bot. (ed. 2) I. vi. 261 Cortices of many species [of Phaeophyta] contain mucilage ducts. 1997 Nova Hedwigia 64 51 The distribution and abundance of mucilage ducts and of pits differs in hapteron, stipe and lamina. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > aquatic, marsh, and sea-shore plants > [noun] > marshmallow marshmalloweOE hollyhocka1300 wymalvea1300 white mallowa1400 vimauea1425 mallow1483 marish mallow1548 water mallow1548 mucilage mallow1578 moorish mallow1597 wymote1597 shrub mallow1640 guimauve1812 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball v. xxvii. 586 The Mucculage Mallowe. mucilage passage n. Botany = mucilage duct n. ΚΠ 1884 F. O. Bower & D. H. Scott tr. H. A. de Bary Compar. Anat. Phanerogams & Ferns 202 Mucilage- and gum-passages in the Marattiaceæ [etc.]. 1927 Bot. Gaz. 84 357 (caption) Fig. 20, schizogenous mucilage passage from phloem of petiole. 1970 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 57 319/2 Hill..suggests that the purpose of the parichnos is that of a mucilage passage. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † mucilagev. Obsolete. rare. transitive. To cause to stick or adhere as with mucilage. ΚΠ 1891 M. E. Ryan Told in Hills iii. v. 197 Over it she walked quickly, fully awakened by the thought of the coffee getting a bath of vinegar, or the mail mucilaged together with molasses. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.a1400v.1891 |
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