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What does glairy mean?

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Adjective
  1. (obsolete) Of or pertaining to glair; slimy, viscous and transparent.
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When deeply placed, they are lined by cylindrical or ciliated epithelium and contain a glairy mucoid fluid.
We use for delicate ornamentation what was once the dwelling of a glairy animal, near relation to the oyster.
An automatic in each hand, Stern scrambled to the glairy summit of the fortification.
It is indicated when there is a clear, glairy, stringy fluid vomited, the nausea aggravated by smell of food.
And, while we are about it, you know that old Ingres turns me sick with his glairy painting.
Its function is that of supplying the involved passages with moisture, and it secretes a glairy or watery substance called mucus.

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