This accounts for my glib use of the word mucilage, as well as the titles of other staples.    From Wordnik.com.  [Men, Women, and Boats] Reference

What's called the mucilage, which is the sort of fruity part, which, by the way, tastes rather sweet if you chew it, that has to come off.    From Wordnik.com.  [Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How it Transformed Our World] Reference

It is particularly by the mucilage, which is found in greater or less quantity in all vegetables, that the purity of oil is affected.    From Wordnik.com.  [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference

I have never had a problem with the okra 'mucilage', but I know some people are completely appalled by it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gastropod: Okra] Reference

I felt like the inside of a mucilage bottle for a week.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Yankee in the Trenches] Reference

Take a thick mucilage of gum arabic, and stir into it plaster of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets] Reference

�They dont have a lot of mucilage or juice in them, theyre dry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trouble In Paradise: Hawaii Waits For Drought Relief] Reference

Chemically, the most important part of the plant is its "mucilage.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference

This starch paste acts in the same manner as the insoluble mucilage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference

They consist in this state almost exclusively of mucilage and sugar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference

Fresh Lemon juice will not keep because of its mucilage, which soon ferments.    From Wordnik.com.  [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference

It had been stuck there by a drop of mucilage, and the mucilage was still wet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Brand of Silence A Detective Story] Reference

Between the veins are numerous cavities, filled with mucilage, and small, solid grains.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference

Impregnate the tissues with mucilage for twelve to twenty-four hours, according to size.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged.] Reference

This mucilage is hard when dry, but swells up enormously in water, especially fresh water.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses] Reference

A pair of scissors and a needle and thread must be given to each guest; also some mucilage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Entertainments for Home, Church and School] Reference

When lightly boiled in a little water it yields all its sweetness, together with some mucilage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference

The juice from the bulbs can be employed for cementing broken glass or china, by means of its mucilage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference

They yield tannin freely, with mucilage, resin, and muriate of lime, together with a heavy volatile oil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference

In one case the crystals were neither covered nor embedded in an insoluble mucilage, but were free to move.    From Wordnik.com.  [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference

Anthocerotaceae they occupy some of the mucilage slits between the cells of the lower surface of the thallus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference

After washing, these small plants adhere by their natural mucilage to the paper on which they may be floated out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference

Presently he returned, flushed, gazing ruefully at the fragments in his hand, covered with mucilage or liquid glue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Louis Agassiz as a Teacher; illustrative extracts on his method of instruction] Reference

This mucilage was to be rubbed over the vertebrae of the back each night and morning for five or six days together.    From Wordnik.com.  [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference

To effect this object the mucilage should be thick, and the tracing paper should be dampened with a sponge after it is pasted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught] Reference

In the other case the insoluble mucilage which surrounded the crystals prevented all free movement and they produced no irritation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference

The residue or "foots" produced during the refining of crude cotton-seed oil, known in the trade as "mucilage," may be converted into.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Handbook of Soap Manufacture] Reference