Then add 2 egg whites and tapioca/corn starch for viscidity within the mixture. ❋ E D B M (2005)
They are attenuating and deobstruent, consequently of service in disorders arising from a languid circulation, a viscidity of the juices, a lax fibre, and obstructed viscera. ❋ Unknown (2004)
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. ❋ Richard Threlfall (N/A)
If strength, elasticity, clearness, and perfect freedom from viscidity, be tests of excellence, then this product may be considered as equal to any other. ❋ William Griffith (N/A)
This is prepared (H.) with proof spirit from the leaves and ripe berries of our Mistletoe in equal quantities, but it is difficult of manufacture owing to the viscidity of the sap. ❋ William Thomas Fernie (N/A)
Great tails lashed in frenzied anger about us, razor-like talons cut our limbs and bodies, and a green and sticky syrup, such as oozes from a crushed caterpillar, smeared us from head to foot, for every cut and thrust of our long-swords brought spurts of this stuff upon us from the severed arteries of the plant men, through which it courses in its sluggish viscidity in lieu of blood. ❋ Unknown (1913)
Physicians in India praise this oil highly; not only is it a sure and painless purgative, but it is free from the viscidity and disgusting taste of castor-oil; besides it has the advantage of operating in small doses, 2-4 grams. ❋ Jerome Beers Thomas (1891)
In the great group of the Vandeæ, relative position of parts, friction, viscidity, elastic and hygrometric movements were all found to be nicely related to one end -- the aid of insects in fertilisation. ❋ Unknown (1870)
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. ❋ Jean-Henri Fabre (1869)
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. ❋ Jean-Henri Fabre (1869)
This plant, it is said, will prevent the attacks of yellow and other flies upon horses; probably owing to its great viscidity. ❋ Unknown (1863)
The viscidity and specific gravity of milk are somewhat greater than that of water; but these properties vary somewhat in the milk procured from different individuals. ❋ Isabella Mary (1861)
The Peruvian bark gatherers adulterate the true cinchona bark with this, but it may be detected by its white inner surface, its less powerful bitter taste, and a viscidity not possessed by the cinchonas. ❋ William Saunders (1861)
Could you not invent some quite new term for gland, implying viscidity? or append some word to gland. ❋ Charles Darwin (1845)
I should think the non-viscidity of the stigmatic hollow was due to the plant not living under its natural conditions. ❋ Charles Darwin (1845)
Among these I may particularly refer to the contracted stigmatic chamber, and the slight viscidity of its disk. ❋ Charles Darwin (1845)
Mr.W. E. CHANNING, the poet, had evidently but perhaps unconsciously imitated his peculiar viscidity of style, and (if we may use such an expression.) extreme flakiness of thought. ❋ Various (1840)
As when one school of physicians sought for the universal principle of all disease in “lentor and morbid viscidity of the blood,” and imputing most bodily derangements to mechanical obstructions, thought to cure them by mechanical remedies; (257) while another, the chemical school, ❋ John Stuart Mill (1839)
