Meaning of mucidness | Babel Free

Definitions

The state or condition of being mucid.

also, figuratively, rare, uncountable

Examples

“From whence it appears, that ſometimes compreſs’d Air is more diſpos’d to alter Colours, than uncompreſs’d; and it may not be amiſs to obſerve, that the Roſes after this manner ſhut up, did not acquire the leaſt Mucidneſs, but only a yellow Colour: But when the Experiment was try’d with Tulips and Lark-Spurs, the Succeſs was different.”

“The average reader judges a paper by the amount of news it contains; its reliability as a chronicler of events; its enterprise in the direction of printing facts; its independence, coupled with the ability of its manager to extract solid news from slops, straight intelligence from fribbling mucidness.”

“The windows that were inteneded to allow light and sun into the place have never been cleaned, and the rays that furtively find their way through serve only as a contrast, and helps to show the mucidness, rankness, and feculence of the surroundings and the defilement of the inhabitants […]”

“Let us suppose that in a given space there exists a spore of mucidness. This spore is arrested on the surface of a liquid placed to receive it, and containing azote (nitrogen), carbon, oxygen, mineral substances, and other necessary elements for its germination, in certain proportions; the germination begins.”

“The colonies are not long in developing, in differently colored points, upon the nutritive paper; while they are very confluent when the water in impure, they are infrequent when the water is poor in bacteria and in mucidness. After eight to fifteen days, when assured that the number of spots does not sensibly increase, the paper is withdrawn from the incubating vessel and placed in a heated air stove at about 45 °C .;[…]”

“The fact is that we have, all of us, been dilatory to a degree where burlesque is concerned. We should have taken shots at its mucidness, its obnoxious strip acts, its coarse and unfunny humors—harpooned performers whose didoes nauseated us.”

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