mucid

Example Sentences

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Orr snickered with a slight, mucid sibilance and turned back to his work, squatting.

From Literature

Then Beowulf saw coil after coil of slimy skin, mucid, spongy, dripping with the filth of the swamps, smeared thick with blood and scum, maggoty, putrid, and a pair of eyes glaring green, and slobbering lips, and huge claws reaching .

From Literature

Mucid, mū′sid, adj. slimy, mouldy—also Mū′cidous.—ns.

From Project Gutenberg

Slaves stumble over garbage-strewn floors bearing trays of delicacies from some gastronomic apocalypse: a white calf wearing a brass helmet, cows' udders aswim in a mucid green sauce.

From Time Magazine Archive

But just as the cab reached the beginning of the Camden Road, he caught sight of a slop-shop where old clothes smothered the entrance with their mucid heaps and, just beyond, of three houses from whose surface the stucco was peeling in great scabs and the damp was oozing in livid arabesques and scrawls of verdigris.

From Project Gutenberg