viscidity
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The Peruvian bark gatherers adulterate the true cinchona bark with this, but it may be detected by its white inner surface, its less powerful bitter taste, and a viscidity not possessed by the cinchonas.
From Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture by William Saunders
They are attenuating and deobstruent, consequently of service in disorders arising from a languid circulation, a viscidity of the juices, a lax fibre, and obstructed viscera.
From Travels through France and Italy by T. (Tobias) Smollett
It is hardly proper, perhaps, to call this resistance by the name of friction; it is partly, perhaps mainly, due to the viscidity or adhesion of the water.
From A Catechism of the Steam Engine by John Bourne, C.E.
What then is the meaning of viscosity or viscidity?
From The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. by John Tyndall
As to viscidity, two very viscid species, when young, are among the highly prized esculents by those who know them, viz.,
From Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous by Thomas Taylor
