glaireous, a.
(ˈglɛəriːəs)
Also 8–9 glareous, glairous.
[f. glair n.1 + -eous. Cf. F. glaireux.]
Having the nature or appearance of glair.
| 1755 Johnson, Glareous. 1765 Univ. Mag. XXXVII. 146/2 There is a glareous liquor. 1806 Knight in Phil. Trans. XCVII. 104 A glareous fluid, as Du Hamel has stated, exudes from the surface of the alburnum. 1819 H. Busk Vestriad i. 219 These glareous eyes Death's fingers glue. 1848 Maunder Treas. Nat. Hist. 787 Glareous. 1882 Ogilvie, Glaireous, Glairous. [As distinct words.] So in later Dicts. |