Vocabulary Word
Word: viscous
Definition: (of a liquid) thick and sticky; gluey; viscid; CF. consistency
Definition: (of a liquid) thick and sticky; gluey; viscid; CF. consistency
Sentences Containing 'viscous'
Sometimes they would fix upon my nose, or forehead, where they stung me to the quick, smelling very offensively; and I could easily trace that viscous matter, which, our naturalists tell us, enables those creatures to walk with their feet upwards upon a ceiling.
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