A thing is viscous when, being moist or soft, it is tractile. From Wordnik.com. [Meteorology] Reference
The "student of Slavers" was running his padded, re - tractile-clawed hands over the sphere-with-a-handle. From Wordnik.com. [Neutron Star]
They must be tractile (without admitting water) or malleable (without consisting of water), and the agent in softening them is fire. From Wordnik.com. [Meteorology] Reference
Things are tractile when their surface can be made to elongate, for being drawn out is a movement of the surface, remaining unbroken, in the direction of the mover. From Wordnik.com. [Meteorology] Reference
A traction wheel, of given weight, resting upon two square inches of hard earth or rock, would develop the same tractile power as though it had a bearing surface of two square feet of similar material. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American, Volume XXIV., No. 12, March 18, 1871 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures.] Reference
Some things are both tractile and squeezable, e.g. wool; in other cases the two qualities do not coincide; phlegm, for instance, is tractile but not squeezable, and a sponge squeezable but not tractile. From Wordnik.com. [Meteorology] Reference
The advantages claimed may be enumerated as follows: increased tractile power, with a given weight, secured without damage to roadways; ease of carriage to the supported machinery, whereby it -- the machinery -- is saved from stress and wear; and economy of the power, expended in moving the extra weight required by rigid-tired wheels, to secure the required frictional resistance. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American, Volume XXIV., No. 12, March 18, 1871 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures.] Reference
The shy hairy men who herd the tractile flocks might be, except for some added clothing, the very brethren of David. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Little Rain] Reference
True, many chronic diseases are obstinate, yet a course of restorative medication persistently followed, promises a fortunate issue in this tractile temperament. From Wordnik.com. [The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand] Reference
Some eight thousand (being late conquest) was liquid and actually tractile in the bank; the rest whirled beyond reach and even sight (save in the mirror of a balance-sheet) under the compelling spell of wizard Pinkerton. From Wordnik.com. [The Wrecker] Reference
A moderately rough surface, sufficiently to give an efficient tractile power. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American, Volume XXIV., No. 12, March 18, 1871 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures.] Reference
A tractile power to assist us in dragging sledges, as well as a means of signalizing between parties, afforded much interest, and the success of our experiments in applying them to dragging weights was so great, that all those I was able to supply gladly provided themselves with so useful an auxiliary to foot-travellers. From Wordnik.com. [Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal; or, Eighteen Months in the Polar Regions, in Search of Sir John Franklin's Expedition, in the Years 1850-51] Reference
To the source of the tractile fire. From Wordnik.com. [Dramatic Romances] Reference
I, too, like puss, have a tractile claw. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Last Harvest] Reference
Some things are tractile, e.g. hair, thongs, sinew, dough, birdlime, and some are not, e.g. water, stone. From Wordnik.com. [Meteorology] Reference
They are as follows: to be apt or inapt to solidify, melt, be softened by heat, be softened by water, bend, break, be comminuted, impressed, moulded, squeezed; to be tractile or non-tractile, malleable or non-malleable, to be fissile or non-fissile, apt or inapt to be cut; to be viscous or friable, compressible or incompressible, combustible or incombustible; to be apt or inapt to give off fumes. From Wordnik.com. [Meteorology] Reference
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