viscidity

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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 Bourne, John, C.E.

This honey-dew must not be confounded with the normal viscidity of certain insectivorous plants—e.g.

From Disease in Plants by Ward, H. Marshall

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 Taylor, Thomas

When the thrombus is comparatively free from red blood-corpuscles, the softened product, in consequence of its yellowish color, opacity, and viscidity, resembles pus.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

It is a question, apparently, of removing a few atoms of dust or else some traces of viscidity that remain from the evil contact with the Snail.

From The Wonders of Instinct Chapters in the Psychology of Insects by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander