glutinous, a.
(ˈgl(j)uːtɪnəs)
Also 7 gluttinous.
[ad. L. glūtinōs-us, f. glutin- gluten. Cf. F. glutineux.]
Of the nature of glue or gluten; viscid, sticky, gluey.
| 1576 Baker Jewell of Health 237 Masticke..gum, or any other matter, that being wrought and made glutynous or glewishe [etc.]. 1603 B. Jonson Sejanus i. i, We haue..No soft, and glutinous bodies, that can stick, Like Snailes on painted walls. 1620 Venner Via Recta iii. 52 The nourishment thereof is too moist, grosse, glutinous, and obstructiue. 1727 Swift Gulliver iii. v. 209 Gums, oils, and other glutinous matter. 1779 Forrest Voy. N. Guinea 188 As I went in barefooted, I found the miry stuff stick to my feet. Being very glutinous, it was not easily washed off. 1820 Keats Lamia i. 210 God Bacchus..Stretch'd out, at ease, beneath a glutinous pine. 1851–6 Woodward Mollusca 113 Some of the gasteropoda can suspend themselves by glutinous threads. 1875 Jowett Plato (ed. 2) III. 658 The sinews have a firmer and more glutinous nature than flesh. |
| fig. 1638 Rouse Heav. Univ. (1702) 157, I may be able to hold thee fast with the glutinous bond of true love. 1655 Fuller Ch. Hist. ix. xvi. §38 Besides the glutenous nature of all aspersions to stick where they light. 1721 R. Keith tr. T. à Kempis' Solil. Soul ix. 170, I am fettered with the glutinous Affection of fading slippery Things. 1883 A. Forbes in 19th Cent. Oct. 722 The accent of the lower classes, which is a glutinous Cockney. |
Hence
ˈglutinously adv.,
ˈglutinousness.
| 1620 Dekker Dreame (1860) 29 The ægyptian Caliginous black vapor..glutinously thick. a 1661 Fuller Worthies Dorset. i. (1662) 277 His [the tench's] Natural unctuous glutinousness, which quickly consolidateth any green gash in any fish. 1685 Boyle Enq. Notion Nat. 192 Spirit of Wine, whose Tenacity and Glutinousness is far less than that of Water. 1851 Ruskin Stones Ven. I. xxvii. §16 As if one had dipped it [the shaft] into a mass of melted ornament..and brought up a quantity adhering glutinously to its extremity. 1872 Geo. Eliot Middlem., The most glutinously indefinite minds enclose some hard grains of habit. |