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Gleet, glēt, n. a glairy discharge from a mucous surface.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
The glairy fluid which is secreted by mucous membranes, and which serves to keep them in a moist condition.
From A Treatise on Physiology and Hygiene For Educational Institutions and General Readers by Joseph Chrisman Hutchison
The matters vomited consist of the ingesta colored with bile, of glairy mucus tinged with bile, or of green bile, sometimes in considerable quantity.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
He had a remittent chronic intestinal catarrh, with—noticeably during the periods of exacerbation—abundant discharge of a glairy mucus.
From The Electric Bath by George M. Schweig
They leave a glairy trail everywhere they go.
From The Romantic by May Sinclair
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