An albuminoid substance which is contained in mucus, and gives to the latter secretion its peculiar ropy character.
In a ropy manner; in a viscous or glutinous manner.
A slimy or ropy condition of milk is frequently noted on the farm and in the dairy.
One of the most frequent troubles encountered is the appearance of a slimy or ropy condition in the starter, although the acidity developed may be normal and the flavor desirable.
A sudden, springy alertness had seized his body, and beneath the pussy alcoholic flesh of his face had sprung tight ropy lines not yet corroded.
Down their naked heels came in turn, pounding the ground; in one long, smooth sweep from waist to toe the legs flashed back in a quivering of ropy sinew.
If the stools are very yellow, foul, greasy or ropy the mother is eating food that produces too much fat (cream) in her milk.
In some cases there is frequent vomiting, either of watery fluid mixed with ropy mucus, or of a greenish colour; the result probably of subacute inflammation of the stomach.
It acts as an irritant to the digestive tract, causing dribbling of ropy saliva from the mouth, diarrhea, tenesmus, and loss of appetite, with increased temperature and cold extremities.
He took a detonite cartridge from his belt and placed it on the floor close to the ropy strands.
He had found the entrance an opening no longer: it was sealed with a giant web of ropy strands--a network, welded together to a glutinous mesh.
There were also some exceedingly good specimens of "ropy" lava, so named because of theropy appearance and rope-like structure of the surface.
On the way, which was along the foot of the range outlying Lang Joekull, we had to pass over a small snow-field, close to which we came upon a good specimen of ropy lava.
Defn: In a ropy manner; in a viscous or glutinous manner.
Defn: An albuminoid substance which is contained in mucus, and gives to the latter secretion its peculiar ropy character.
But beer or ale is seldom known to be so ropy as cyder.
The following remedy forropy cyder must be proportion'd with judgment to the degree of the disorder in the liquor.
Slow inflammation of that organ is induced, the urine becomes bloody and mixed with ropy mucus; lymph is deposited on the lining membrane.
The urine is mixed with ropy mucus, and in long-continued cases with a puriform fluid.
In one instance in the writer's experience, a milk dealer lost over $150 a month for several months from ropy cream.
Their presence in a dairy is a source of much trouble, as the unsightly appearance of the milk precludes its use as food, although there is no evidence that these ropy fermentations are dangerous to health.
Two sets of conditions are responsible for these ropy or slimy milks.
The communicable form of ropy milk only appears after the milk has been drawn from the udder for a day or so, and is caused by the development of various species of bacteria which find their way into the milk after it is drawn.
At noon on the 3rd the larva at first lay almost motionless in the now thick and ropy saliva; nevertheless, on applying a thin glass cover its movements became tolerably vigorous.
After passing the thick ropy saliva into the tube, I examined the slide and found that the larva was gone.
But he marveled again and again at the hungry things that made a mesh of ropy strands across the smooth area about the ship.
Ropy strands of the metal shone reddish-yellow in the soft light of the walls; detached pieces lay on the floor and in the car itself.
Above a ropy tangle of livid vines and creepers a kingly stench weed towered, purplish and bloated and weighted down with seed pods.
Floating in the sky were serpentine tendrils as thick as a man's wrist, purplish flowers and ropy fungus growths.
Dim white flowers hung from their stems, and ropy creepers swung from tree to tree.
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