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countable and uncountable, plural glairs
Egg white, especially as used in various industrial preparations. quotations examples
If you beat an egg white until a froth forms on the surface, the clear liquid below the froth is glair.
2021, Hana Videen, The Wordhord, Profile Books, published 2022, page 65
Any viscous, slimy substance. quotations examples
Some rain fell during the past few days but had little effect on the river which remains very low and full of glair.
1962, The Fishing Gazette, page 276
She jacked with authority, knowing how to slick the glair over the glans with her thumb when it began to flow, how to pace a shaftlength voluptuous stroke with a whole slide from meatus to os pubis, how to work with a loving will.
1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!
A broadsword fixed on a pike; a kind of halberd. examples
third-person singular simple present glairs, present participle glairing, simple past and past participle glaired
To smear with egg-white. examples