viscidity
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It has frequently done great service in some kinds of scurvies and other chronic disorders proceeding from a viscidity of the juices, or obstructions of the excretory ducts.
From The Botanist's Companion, Volume II by Salisbury, William
I have not rejected any by design, merely because they were unnecessary or exuberant, but have received those which by different writers have been differently formed, as viscid, and viscidity, viscous, and viscosity.
From Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations by Eliot, Charles William
By mixing vaseline with paraffin a soft wax may be made of any desired degree of softness, and by dissolving vaseline in kerosene an insulating liquid of any degree of viscidity may be obtained.
From On Laboratory Arts by Threlfall, Richard
The newborn worms, thanks to a slight viscidity, cling for a moment to the wire gauze; they swarm, wriggle, release themselves and leap into the chasm.
From The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander
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
