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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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Its function is that of supplying the involved passages with moisture, and it secretes a glairy or watery substance called mucus.
On the surface grows a glairy Alga, which was once all green but now festers in yellow patches and causes a horrible stench.
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.
The glairy fluid of colloid carcinoma oozes from the cut surface of the tumor, bathes it, and is to be found in the intestine.
And, while we are about it, you know that old Ingres turns me sick with his glairy painting.

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