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Adhesiveness   Listen
noun
Adhesiveness  n.  
1.
The quality of sticking or adhering; stickiness; tenacity of union.
2.
(Phren.) Propensity to form and maintain attachments to persons, and to promote social intercourse.





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"Adhesiveness" Quotes from Famous Books



... relief, sold the bodies for dissection to Dr. Hare of the medical school. None of us children ever heard anything like the original story. The servant girls told us that "Dandy Doctors," clad in long black cloaks and supplied with a store of sticking-plaster of wondrous adhesiveness, prowled at night about the country lanes and even the town streets, watching for children to choke and sell. The Dandy Doctor's business method, as the servants explained it, was with lightning quickness to clap a sticking-plaster ...
— The Story of My Boyhood and Youth • John Muir
... oil possesses a singularly cleansing virtue. This is the reason why the decks never look so white as just after what they call an affair of oil. Besides, from the ashes of the burned scraps of the whale, a potent ley is readily made; and whenever any adhesiveness from the back of the whale remains clinging to the side, that ley quickly exterminates it. Hands go diligently along the bulwarks, and with buckets of water and rags restore them to their full tidiness. The soot is brushed from the lower rigging. All the numerous implements ...
— Moby-Dick • Melville


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