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Definition of Gluelike
1. resembling glue [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gluelike
Literary usage of Gluelike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The U. S. Coal Industry, 1970-1990: Two Decades of Change (1992)
"Most marine algae have a gluelike substance on the outside of the cells that
makes specimens more or less self-adherent to most kinds of paper. ..."
2. The New McGuffey Fourth Reader by William Holmes McGuffey (1901)
"... the gluelike liquid. Then the stone is placed with great care in the proper
position, and is worked ..."
3. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1877)
"is so often not found in it, since the latter is converted into lactic acid by
the action of the gluelike substance ..."
4. Applied Physiology: Including the Effects of Alcohol and Narcotics by Frank Overton (1897)
"Dry some upon a piece of paper over a fire and notice its brittle, gluelike
character, and that it will again dissolve in water. Boil some and notice that ..."
5. Man-- an adaptive mechanism by George Washington Crile (1916)
"... (3) by the rigid and persistent contraction of the abdominal muscles; and (4)
by the exudation of a sticky, gluelike fluid. The infected point is thus ..."
6. New Conceptions in Science: With a Foreword on the Relations of Science and by Carl Snyder (1903)
"Mixed with water into a sort of gluelike solution, which may become as hard as
the enamel of the teeth, are the various compounds of the four ..."
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