Unless the potato is carefully forced through a fine sieve, the candy made from it will have hard and gluey spots after it has dried out.
Moreover, should the mixture escape burning, it would develop gluey spots that would make the finished product lacking in the smoothness that is the ideal of the candy-cook.
I have heard it defined by men of high culture as "gluey tenacity;" and such tenacity they once supposed a glacier to possess.
Then it commences gnawing away at the bark, at the same time cementing all the pieces together with the gluey substance from its spinning glands.
The nails were discolored, knobby, easily bleeding and covered with a gluey eruption.
The initial stages in the freezing of sea-water, when its consistency becomes gluey or soupy.
The front door has the appearance of being nailed up, and across its frame a dozen fat spiders, most successful of fly fishers, have stretched their gluey nets.
Thus, "the little Sundew exudes a gluey secretion from the surface of its leaves, which serves to attract and retain insects, the decay of whose bodies seems to contribute to its existence.
The gummy and gluey materials have been transformed into sugar.
If the paste is not sufficiently boiled, however, it will show the circumstance very soon; for in a few days the soap will become gluey and stringy, like a tenacious mass of birdlime.
It spun the thread from a sort of gluey substance which is contained in the flasks in its body.
Ladanum is a varnish or gluey coating found on the leaves of Cistus creticus, which grows in Crete.
Yet from the seed-coat a very deadly poison is obtained; probably snake-venom and various gluey substances form part of the mixture, which is daubed on the arrows.
The lozenge-shaped pieces are used to build up the sides and lower end of the cell, and the circular pieces to close it in with at the top; it is all cemented together with a gluey substance excreted by the bee.
One of these groups is called Colletes, on account of its habit of lining its cells with a gluey material, the other, Prosopis, on account of the markings on the face.
Ants are great enemies to the borer when they can get at them, but they are much prevented by its excrement, which being like filings of wood, and of a gluey consistence, usually fills up and secures their holes from the entrance of the ants.
The sappadilla is of the size and make of a bergamot pear, its juice is of a gluey nature, and of a sweet taste.
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