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They all repeated the word in tones of conviction—that word which they usually cast at the very worst smudges, at the pale, cold, glairy painting of daubers.
From His Masterpiece by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly
It becomes softened as the result of congestion, and the glands are more active, secreting a thick glairy mucus.
From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Thomas Jefferson Ritter
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
If they had visited Mr. Anthony's upper rooms, they would have seen a row of young women before certain broad, shallow pans filled with the glairy albumen which once enveloped those potential fowls.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863 by Various
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
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