mucus

• Given the sad shape of her uniform shirt, a smear of equine mucus was a mere drop in the bucket. —  Blood Lure
• Jenkins is busy clearing the "mucus" - his term for all the stuff he has to sell - like a pile of cubicle dividers for $25, which he's stunned to get.
• This fluid in women is not a vital fluid like the semen in man; it is merely mucus, and in some women it is very slight in amount or altogether absent. —  Woman Her Sex and Love Life
• First, the mucus is gently swabbed off the closed lids from the nose side outward, and then follows the application of one drop of twenty per cent argyrol or two per cent silver nitrate, either of which thoroughly disinfects the eye and prevents the growth or development of any bacteria that may have gotten into the child's eye during the descent of the head through the birth canal. —  The Mother and Her Child
• This washes out the tenacious mucus, and stimulates the gastric glands to secretion. —  The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference

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