glairy, a.
(ˈglɛərɪ)
Also 7 gleary, 8 gliry, 8–9 glary.
[f. glair n.1 + -y1.]
Of the nature of glair; viscid, slimy. Chiefly Path.
| 1662 J. Chandler Van Helmont's Oriat. 196 The venal bloud being resolved by other poysons into a liquor Sunovie or Gleary water, poyson, jaundous excrement, &c. doth flow forth. 1737 Bracken Farriery Impr. (1743) II. 216 The Quantity of brownish gliry Matter that ran out. 1741 Monro Anat. Nerves (ed. 3) 26 A wounded Nerve yields a glairy Sanies. 1809 Home in Phil. Trans. XCIX. 185 By mucus of animals, I mean a glary fluid. 1827 W. Kennedy Poems 123 Two glairy eyes Masked by foul putrefaction were unveiled. 1848 Carpenter Anim. Phys. i. (1872) 31 When a considerable quantity of it exists in a fluid (as in the white of the egg) it gives to it a glairy tenacious character. 1853 Zoologist II. 3823 On raising the skin, a glairy appearance of the muscles and flesh (which was much wasted) presented itself. 1880 Gray Struct. Bot. 115 A glairy secretion is poured out from numerous immersed glands. |
| Comb. 1883 J. E. Ady in Knowledge 15 June 354/1 Threads..coated over with a glairy-looking deposit [protoplasm]. |
Hence
ˈglairiness, viscidity.
| 1866–7 Livingstone Last Jrnls. (1873) I. ii. 45 A little glariness seemed to be present on the foreleg. |