OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 16457

glue

/ɡluː/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
cola • goma • pegamento
A hard gelatin made by boiling bones and hides, used in solution as an adhesive; or any sticky adhesive substance.
Near-synonyms: adhesive, cement
The wasp has always made the paper from which it constructs its nest, by uniting vegetable fibres with glue, while man was vexing himself with attempts to write on the bark of tree…
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