I told her about the mucilage though an' then she changed her views an' said I'd best fold the sheet neatly an' let him wear it till he wore it off next time he growed a new skin.
Dextrin serves in place of the old "gum arabic" for the mucilage of our envelopes and stamps.
Every country boy knows that he can get a self-feeding mucilagebrush by cutting off a milkweed stalk.
So, too, the Post Office Department discovered that it could use mucilage made of corn dextrin as well as that which used to be made from tapioca.
Stamps, wrapped in oil-silk with mucilage side next to the silk.
That ninny of a Sara Ray brought up a bottle of mucilage instead of Judy's curling-fluid, and Cecily put her hair up with THAT.
Eventually they got all the mucilage washed out of it and Cecily spent the remainder of the forenoon sitting before the open oven door in the hot kitchen drying her ill-used tresses.
Rub down an ounce of castor oil in two drachms of mucilage of gum arabic, add three ounces of dill water, and a drachm of tincture of jalap, gradually.
It may be made into an emulsion with mucilage and water.
Mix four ounces of olive oil with half an ounce of mucilage and half a pint of warm water.
Mucilage of clean picked Irish moss, made by boiling a quarter of an ounce of the moss in one quart of water until sufficiently thick, rectified spirit in the proportion of a teaspoonful to each bottle, to prevent its being mildewed.
The apples, after being gathered, are usually left for fourteen or fifteen days in a barn or loft to mellow, during which time the mucilage is decomposed, and alcohol and carbonic acid developed.
Mucilage consists of cotton-seed oil soap, together with the colouring and resinous principles separated during the treatment of the crude oil.
It seems necessary that the marriages of plants should be celebrated in the open air, either because the powder of the anther, or the mucilage on the stigma, or the reservoir of honey might receive injury from the water.
To the glaze batch from which the water has been removed a tablespoonful of the mucilage is added.
If more of the glaze than the single batch has been weighed out then more mucilage will be necessary.
A little mucilage must be added to secure smooth working.
Course, about soap and mucilage in YOUR shoes, anybody'd know some other boy must of put 'em there to get even for what you put in his.
He returned to the dressing-room, five seconds later, carrying not only the mucilage but a "switch" worn by Miss Lowe when her hair was dressed in a fashion different from that which she had favoured for the party.
I s'pose they think I put mucilage and soap in my own shoes.
Upon a desk he beheld the bottle of mucilage he wanted, and, having taken possession of it, he allowed his eye the privilege of a rapid glance into a dressing table drawer, accidentally left open.
After that, Carlie poured mucilageinto all six shoes impartially until the bottle was empty, then took them back to their former positions in the dressing-room.
This "switch" he placed in the pocket of a juvenile overcoat unknown to him, and then he took the mucilage into the bathroom.
From the marsh mallow's thick roots the mucilage used in confectionery is obtained, a soothing demulcent long esteemed in medicine.
Another relative, the OKRA or GUMBO PLANT of vegetable gardens (Hibiscus esculentus), has mucilage enough in its narrow pods to thicken a potful of soup.
Oil of peppermint, with sugar and mucilage of tragacanth.
They consist in this state almost exclusively of mucilage and sugar.
These when unbruised and macerated in boiling water yield only a tasteless mucilage which resides in their skin.
All the Mallows (Malvaceoe) to the number of a thousand, agree in containing mucilage freely, and in possessing no unwholesome properties.
This mucilage was to be rubbed over the vertebrae of the back each night and morning for five or six days together.
When immersed in water they swell up considerably, and the mucilage will yield salts of lime with albumen.
Bandoline is the mucilage of Quince seeds to which some Eau de Cologne is added: and this mixture is employed for keeping the hair fixed when dressed by the Coiffeur.
A mucilage of Rice made by boiling the well-washed grain for some time in water, and straining, contains starch and phosphate of lime in solution, and is therefore a serviceable emollient.
Twenty drops made into an emulsion with mucilage should be given every half-hour on an empty stomach, until sixty or eighty drops have been taken.
When a stamp is passed over the tongue the mucilage is frequently almost wholly removed.
Mr. Greeley still sticks to wafers and sand, instead of using mucilage and blotting-paper.
The officers spread a layer of mucilage over a sheet of paper, and on this fitted the scraps which were given them.
Dry black mixed withmucilage and water, or any black water color will answer.
It should be tinted with a thin solution of color to which a little mucilage has been added.
Lay a piece of felt upon a slate, or upon a glass, pour a few drops of mucilage upon the felt, and mix with it either common water color, or dry color.
Potato mucilage (a good substitute for arrow-root), No.
It may readily be perceived how soups made from lean meat might be improved by the addition of a little fat, mixed up and incorporated with a mucilage of potatoes, of wheat flour, oatmeal, peas, and barley.
The intention of the oatmeal or flour is, by the mucilage they contain, assisted with barley broth, to unite the fat with the liquid, so as to form one uniform mass.
When mutton dripping is made into soup, wheat flour is better than oatmeal; but the mucilage of potatoe is better still, requiring only one ounce to the gallon.
For Burns and Light Scalds--At once coat the burned or scalded spot with mucilage and the smarting will cease almost instantly.
They will come apart easily and the mucilage on the back of the stamps can be used as though it was new.
Vinegar for Dried Mucilage--When mucilage has dried at the bottom of the bottle, pour a spoonful or two of vinegar in it, and let it stand awhile.
Another engraver told me the business is not worth learning now that gum mucilage has done away with sealing wax, and consequently the use of seals.
Self-sealing envelopes and mucilage have done away with both wafers and wax.
Emulsions first begin to spoil, as they grow old, not by turning rancid and acrimonious like the Fat Oils drawn by expression, but by turning sour; which is owing to the great quantity of mucilage they contain.
Mucilage on his trouser knees, mucilage on his jacket elbows--in fact, mucilage everywhere on and around him.
The asci are always present, the paraphyses are sometimes rare, and the mucilage in many cases seems to be entirely wanting.
At the same time, they are not wanting in tropical regions, notwithstanding that the intensity of heat, by drying up the mucilage which serves as the medium for the development of their spores, is opposed to their development.
The mucilage forms itself almost at the same time as the paraphyses, and previous to the formation of the asci.
The mucilage also partly disappears, and the asci, attaining their maturity, become quite distinct, each enclosing its sporidia.
The addition of a little mucilageto the solution is sometimes an advantage, producing the same results as strength of solution, by increasing the amount adhering to the paper.
With paper deficient in sizing the mucilage also makes the whites clearer.
Cover the vessel, and stand it in a warm place until a mucilage is formed.
Beat two eggs, stir them into the mucilage with as much sugar as will sweeten it, pour the mixture in a pan and bake it slowly.
When the stems are cut and put in water a slimy sort of mucilage drips from them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mucilage" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
