viscidity

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It is hardly proper, perhaps, to call this resistance by the name of friction; it is partly, perhaps mainly, due to the viscidity or adhesion of the water 539.

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  1. The state or quality of being viscid; glutinousness; tenacity; stickiness. Arbuthnot, Aliments, i
  2. A glutinous concretion. [Rare.] Catharticks of mercurials precipitate the viscidities by their stypticity. Floyer. (Johnson.)

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  1. = French viscidité; as viscid + -ity.
 

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