| glue | To join with glue or a viscous substance; to cause to stick or hold fast, as if with glue; to fix or fasten. "This cold, congealed blood That glues my lips, and will not let me speak." (Shak) Origin: F. Gluer. See Glue. A hard brittle brownish gelatin, obtained by boiling to a jelly the skins, hoofs, etc, of animals. When gently heated with water, it becomes viscid and tenaceous, and is used as a cement for uniting substances. The name is also given to other adhesive or viscous substances. Bee glue. See Bee. Fish glue, a strong kind of glue obtained from fish skins and bladders; isinglass. <botany> Glue plant, a fucoid seaweed (Gloiopeltis tenax). Liquid glue, a fluid preparation of glue and acetic acid oralcohol. Marine glue, a solution of caoutchouc in naphtha, with shellac, used in shipbuilding. Origin: F. Glu, L. Glus, akin to gluten, from gluere to draw together. Cf. Gluten. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| glue ear | Middle ear inflammation with thick mucoid effusion caused by long-standing eustachian tube obstruction. (05 Mar 2000) |
| glue proteins, drosophila | Glycosylated proteins which are part of the salivary glue that drosophila larvae secrete as a means of fixing themselves to an external substrate for the duration of the pre-pupal and pupal period. The proteins which consist of at least eight polypeptides are encoded in the third larval instar by the sgs-3, sgs-4, sgs-7 and sgs-8 genes. (12 Dec 1998) |
| glue-sniffing | Inhalation of fumes from plastic cements; the solvents, which include toluene, xylene, and benzene, induce central nervous system stimulation followed by depression. See: solvent inhalation. (05 Mar 2000) |