viscidity
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These seeds are recommended as a carminative, in flatulent colics proceeding from a cold cause or a viscidity of the juices.
From The Botanist's Companion, Volume II by William Salisbury
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 Richard Threlfall
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 Charles William Eliot
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
The new-born 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 Wonders of Instinct Chapters in the Psychology of Insects by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
