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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



... said he, straitenin his form, up to its full hite, "Sients come to my ade. I got a feather bed, and with a glue pot bilt out ...
— Punchinello, Vol. 2., No. 32, November 5, 1870 • Various

... of hard pitch about, and one or two reckoned the marine glue in the deck-seams might be a passable substitute. They were diggin' some out with their penknives when Doctor ...
— Hocken and Hunken • A. T. Quiller-Couch

... of velvet may be employed, and, in order to facilitate the cutting, they are previously coated on the reverse side with any glue or gum whatever, which gives the velvet a stiffness favorable to the action of the punch. To effect the object desired the apparatus has three successive operations to perform: first, cutting the circles; second, moistening; and third, fastening down the dots upon the tissue according ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 303 - October 22, 1881 • Various

... this fact before when prowling around. Indeed, ere entering the suspected cabin on that very day, he had taken the precaution to glue an eye to one of these cracks, and endeavor to find out whether it were safe for ...
— The Strange Cabin on Catamount Island • Lawrence J. Leslie

... from snakes, which is mixed up with the juice of the euphorbia, and boiled down till it becomes of the consistency of glue. They then dip the heads of the arrows into it, ...
— The Mission; or Scenes in Africa • Captain Frederick Marryat


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