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Definition of glair in English: glairnoun ˈɡlɛːɡlɛr mass noun1A preparation made from egg white, especially as an adhesive for bookbinding and gilding. Example sentencesExamples - This glair was also commonly used as a binder for pigments used in medieval illumination.
- Whatever pigments were selected or manufactured for use, the binding medium with which they were incorporated was either glair or a solution of gum.
- Make your own glair using ingredients such as egg, water, sugar and gum arabic.
Synonyms adhesive, fixative, gum, paste, cement - 1.1dated Egg white.
Derivatives adjective We use for delicate ornamentation what was once the dwelling of a glairy animal, near relation to the oyster. Example sentencesExamples - Soreness of back of mouth and throat; pain on swallowing or difficult swallowing; coating of glairy mucus on roof of mouth, tonsils and throat; some fever; swelling of affected parts.
- Synovial membrane is composed of a form of connective tissue, and secretes a glairy fluid resembling the white of egg, named synovia.
- It is indicated when there is a clear, glairy, stringy fluid vomited, the nausea aggravated by smell of food.
- Vomiting of large masses of dark green bile and mucus; or of large quantities of watery glairy fluid, with watery diarrhoea.
Origin Middle English: from Old French glaire, based on Latin clara, feminine of clarus 'clear'. Rhymes affair, affaire, air, Altair, Althusser, Anvers, Apollinaire, Astaire, aware, Ayer, Ayr, bare, bear, bêche-de-mer, beware, billionaire, Blair, blare, Bonaire, cafetière, care, chair, chargé d'affaires, chemin de fer, Cher, Clair, Claire, Clare, commissionaire, compare, concessionaire, cordon sanitaire, couvert, Daguerre, dare, debonair, declare, derrière, despair, doctrinaire, éclair, e'er, elsewhere, ensnare, ere, extraordinaire, Eyre, fair, fare, fayre, Finisterre, flair, flare, Folies-Bergère, forbear, forswear, foursquare, glare, hair, hare, heir, Herr, impair, jardinière, Khmer, Kildare, La Bruyère, lair, laissez-faire, legionnaire, luminaire, mal de mer, mare, mayor, meunière, mid-air, millionaire, misère, Mon-Khmer, multimillionaire, ne'er, Niger, nom de guerre, outstare, outwear, pair, pare, parterre, pear, père, pied-à-terre, Pierre, plein-air, prayer, questionnaire, rare, ready-to-wear, rivière, Rosslare, Santander, savoir faire, scare, secretaire, share, snare, solitaire, Soufrière, spare, square, stair, stare, surface-to-air, swear, Tailleferre, tare, tear, their, there, they're, vin ordinaire, Voltaire, ware, wear, Weston-super-Mare, where, yeah Definition of glair in US English: glairnounɡlerɡlɛr 1A preparation made from egg white, used especially as an adhesive for bookbinding and gilding. Example sentencesExamples - Whatever pigments were selected or manufactured for use, the binding medium with which they were incorporated was either glair or a solution of gum.
- This glair was also commonly used as a binder for pigments used in medieval illumination.
- Make your own glair using ingredients such as egg, water, sugar and gum arabic.
Synonyms adhesive, fixative, gum, paste, cement - 1.1dated Egg white.
Origin Middle English: from Old French glaire, based on Latin clara, feminine of clarus ‘clear’. |