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Webster 1913 Edition
Glue
Glue
(glū)
, Noun.
A hard brittle brownish gelatin, obtained by boiling to a jelly the skins, hoofs, etc., of animals. When gently heated with water, it becomes viscid and tenaceous, and is used as a cement for uniting substances. The name is also given to other adhesive or viscous substances.
Bee glue
. See under
– Bee
. Fish glue
, a strong kind of glue obtained from fish skins and bladders; isinglass.
– Glue plant
(Bot.)
, a fucoid seaweed (
– Gloiopeltis tenax
). Liquid glue
, a fluid preparation of glue and acetic acid or alcohol.
– Marine glue
, a solution of caoutchouc in naphtha, with shellac, used in shipbuilding.
Glue
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Glued
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Gluing
.] To join with glue or a viscous substance; to cause to stick or hold fast, as if with glue; to fix or fasten.
This cold, congealed blood
That
That
glues
my lips, and will not let me speak. Shakespeare
Webster 1828 Edition
Glue
GLUE
,Noun.
glu.
Inspissated animal gluten; a tenacious, viscid matter, which serves as a cement to unite other substances. It is made of the skins, parings, &c. of animals, as of oxen, calves or sheep, by boiling them to a jelly.
GLUE
,Verb.
T.
1.
To unite; to hold together.[This word is now seldom used in a figurative sense. The phrases,to glue friends together, vices glue us to low pursuits or pleasures, found in writers of the last century, are not now used, or are deemed inelegant.]