Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as mucous.

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  • adjective of or secreting or covered with or resembling mucus

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Examples

  • Clyster may very fitly bee given, as well for emptying the lower intestines from their usuall excrements, as for carying away and clensing the mucose slimes contained therein.

    Spadacrene Anglica The English Spa Fountain Edmund Deane

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