mucilage

• Your problem can be solved easily with some gelatin or mucilage, an aqueous solution similar to plant gum. —  American Artist
• It had been stuck there by a drop of mucilage, and the mucilage was still wet He thanked Kate Gilbert and picked the paper off, but he did not throw it over the rail into the water. —  The Brand of Silence A Detective Story
• This mucilage is hard when dry, but swells up enormously in water, especially fresh water. —  Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses
• The presence of organic matter gives the wet clay a greater plasticity, probably because it forms a kind of mucilage which adds a certain viscosity and adhesiveness to the natural plasticity of the clay. —  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
• This mucilage was to be rubbed over the vertebrae of the back each night and morning for five or six days together. —  Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure

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