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Glue   /glu/   Listen
Glue

noun
1.
Cement consisting of a sticky substance that is used as an adhesive.  Synonyms: gum, mucilage.
verb
(past & past part. glued; pres. part. gluing or glueing)
1.
Join or attach with or as if with glue.  Synonym: paste.  "Cut and paste the sentence in the text"
2.
Be fixed as if by glue.



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"Glue" Quotes from Famous Books



... coarse half-sheets. Every scrap of blank paper in old note books, letters or waste was utilized. Wall paper and pictures were turned for envelopes. Glue from the peach tree gum served to seal the covers. Poke berries, oak balls, and ...
— Historic Papers on the Causes of the Civil War • Mrs. Eugenia Dunlap Potts

... give him time, and that he will be a great acquisition to the party he has joined now, as it is much easier to get made a peer by the Radicals; and that is what he wants, as his father made a huge fortune in bones and glue. ...
— The Visits of Elizabeth • Elinor Glyn

... ix., p. 282.).—J. L. S. will find the "Indian-rubber glue," which is sold in tin cases, the simplest and cleanest substance for mounting positives; it also possesses the advantage of being free from ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 231, April 1, 1854 • Various

... take a block of straight-grained pine and cut out the shape, roughly at first, with the big blade; then I go over it a second time with the little blade, more carefully; then I put in the ears and tail with a drop of glue, and paint it with a 'non-poisonous' paint—Vandyke brown for the horses, foxes, and cows; slate gray for the elephants and camels; burnt umber for the chickens, zebras, and so on; then, last, a dot of Chinese white for the eyes, and there you are, all finished. ...
— McTeague • Frank Norris

... all haste. Baskets of bread went round and were promptly emptied. And there was a perfect massacre of cold meats, all the remnants of the victuals of the day before, leg of mutton, veal, and ham, encompassed by a fallen mass of transparent jelly which quivered like soft glue. They had all eaten too much already, but these viands seemed to whet their appetites afresh, as though the idea had come to them that nothing whatever ought to be left. The fat priest in the middle of the table, who had shown himself such a capital knife-and-fork, ...
— The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete - Lourdes, Rome and Paris • Emile Zola


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