If strength, elasticity, clearness, and perfect freedom from viscidity, be tests of excellence, then this product may be considered as equal to any other.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference

They are attenuating and deobstruent, consequently of service in disorders arising from a languid circulation, a viscidity of the juices, a lax fibre, and obstructed viscera.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels through France and Italy] Reference

This is prepared (H.) with proof spirit from the leaves and ripe berries of our Mistletoe in equal quantities, but it is difficult of manufacture owing to the viscidity of the sap.    From Wordnik.com.  [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference

By mixing vaseline with paraffin a soft wax may be made of any desired degree of softness, and by dissolving vaseline in kerosene an insulating liquid of any degree of viscidity may be obtained.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Laboratory Arts] Reference

I suppose may be owing to the viscidity communicated to it by the colouring matter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

Could you not invent some quite new term for gland, implying viscidity? or append some word to gland.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference

It is a question, apparently, of removing a few atoms of dust or else some traces of viscidity that remain from the evil contact with the snail.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles] Reference

The viscidity and specific gravity of milk are somewhat greater than that of water; but these properties vary somewhat in the milk procured from different individuals.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Household Management] Reference

Mr.W. E. CHANNING, the poet, had evidently but perhaps unconsciously imitated his peculiar viscidity of style, and (if we may use such an expression.) extreme flakiness of thought.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, June 1844 Volume 23, Number 6] Reference

In the great group of the Vandeæ, relative position of parts, friction, viscidity, elastic and hygrometric movements were all found to be nicely related to one end -- the aid of insects in fertilisation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Charles Darwin] Reference

The adhesion of the blood to the sides of the vessels, likewise causes a loss of velocity in the minuter branches, which may be owing to a chemical affinity: the viscidity or imperfect fluidity of the blood is another retarding cause.    From Wordnik.com.  [Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease] Reference

Thus the idea of meat, excited in the minds of hungry dogs, by their sense of vision, or of smell, increases the discharge of saliva, both in quantity and viscidity; as is seen in its hanging down in threads from their mouths, as they stand round.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

As when one school of physicians sought for the universal principle of all disease in “lentor and morbid viscidity of the blood,” and imputing most bodily derangements to mechanical obstructions, thought to cure them by mechanical remedies; (257) while another, the chemical school.    From Wordnik.com.  [A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive] Reference

When this reservoir of petroleum was cut into, the slowness of its exsudation into the canal was not only owing to its viscidity, but to the pressure of the atmosphere, or to the necessity there was that air should at the same time insinuate itself into the small cavities from which the petroleum descended.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation] Reference

The jaundice therefore is occasioned by an obstruction to the passage of the bile into the intestines, and its subsequent absorption into the blood: this obstruction may be caused either by concretions of the bile, called gall stones, or by a greater viscidity of the fluid, or by a spasm, or paralysis of the biliary ducts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease] Reference

Where the lungs or urethra are inflamed to a considerable degree, and the absorption is so great, that the mucus is already too thick, and adheres to the membrane from its viscidity, opiates and bitter vegetable and austere acids are improper; and mucilaginous diluents should be used in their stead with venesection and torpentia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

As the saline part of the secreted mucus, when the absorption of it is impeded; or the too great viscidity of it, when the absorption is increased; or the too great quantity of the mucus, when the secretion is increased; or the inflammation of the membranes of the lungs; it is an effort to dislodge any of these extraneous materials.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

A viscidity of lymph, and a languid circulation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels through France and Italy] Reference

England, in 1483, and continued till 1551, was in some respects similar to the diabetes; and as Dr. Caius, who saw this disease, mentions the viscidity, as well as the quantity of these sweats, and adds, that the extremities were often cold, when the internal parts were burnt up with heat and thirst, with great and speedy emaciation and debility: there is great reason to believe, that the fluids were absorbed from the cells of the body by the cellular and cystic branches of the lymphatics, and poured on the skin by the retrograde motions of the cutaneous ones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

The bilious vomiting and purging, that affects some people by intervals of a few weeks, is a less degree of this disease; the bile-duct is less irritable than natural, and hence the bile becomes accumulated in the gall-bladder, and hepatic ducts, till by its quantity, acrimony or viscidity, a greater degree of irritation is produced, and it is suddenly evacuated, or lastly from the absorption of the more liquid parts of the bile, the remainder becomes inspissated, and chrystallizes into masses too large to pass, and forms another kind of jaundice, where the bile-duct is not quite paralytic, or has regained its irritability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

If this ingurgitation of spirituous liquors has been daily continued in considerable quantity, and is then suddenly intermitted, a languor or paralysis of the common bile-duct is induced; the bile is prevented from being poured into the intestines; and as the bilious absorbents are stimulated into stronger action by its accumulation, and by the acrimony or viscidity, which it acquires by delay, it is absorbed, and carried to the receptacle of the chyle; or otherwise the secretory vessels of the liver, by the above-mentioned stimulus, invert their motions, and regurgitate their contents into the blood, as sometimes happens to the tears in the lachrymal sack, see Sect.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference