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Mouth moisture
Answer for the clue "Mouth moisture ", 6 letters:
saliva
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Word definitions for saliva in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., from Middle French salive , from Latin saliva "spittle," of unknown origin (perhaps, as Tucker suggests, somehow derived from the base of sallow (adj.)).
Usage examples of saliva.
North Africa were so resistant to snake bites and scorpion stings that their saliva was considered a highly effective antivenin, and they were drafted for every campaign the Romans ever conducted on the African continent.
Teeth, 100 Bones, 130 Cartilage, 550 Muscles, 750 Ligaments, 768 Brain, 789 Blood, 795 Synovial fluid, 805 Bile, 880 Milk, 887 Pancreatic juice, 900 Urine, 936 Lymph, 960 Gastric juice, 975 Perspiration, 986 Saliva, 995 THE NATURAL DRINK OF MAN.
Bubbles of Persil saliva were frothing from his lips and his eyes were rolling in his head, unable to focus on anything other than a middle distance he could never have reached.
Seized in ecstatic trance, he wet his fingers with a freshened mix of blood and saliva, then reanointed the copper weight.
Numbers of gametocytes in the blood of carriers, which determines the number of sporozoites in the mosquito saliva to reinfect people.
He spit smoking saliva on the pavement, returned my look slantwise and said nothing.
Mucus and saliva streamed from his nose, joining the flood of debris and liquids vanishing into the duct.
The saliva is composed of four elementary secretions, derived respectively, from the mucous follicles of the mouth, and the parotid, the submaxillary, and the sublingual glands.
The disease in short arm hath a gimmick for going places unlike certain unfortunate viruses who are fated to languish unconsummate in the guts of a tick or a jungle mosquito, or the saliva of a dying jackal slobbering silver under the desert moon.
Now he carefully unwraps the rawhide that binds the spear head into his old haft, and for want of water to moisten it, crams the whole unfragrant mass into his mouth that it may be softened by warmth and saliva.
Our canteens were dry, but the loaves and cakes in a bakeshop wet my mouth with saliva.
I figured the killer for an organized offender who washed the saliva out of his bites to prevent recovery of DNA evidence.
The animals strained against the leashed collars, trying to creep forward, their eyes blazing, saliva loose and dripping from their jaws, the wet fangs shining in the firelight.
Their grisly arms extended, their yellow fingernails glinting in the sunlight, their thin lips quivering in anticipation of their next meal, saliva pouring from their mouths, they advanced on the Technics, row after ravenous row, undeterred even when an arm or leg was shattered by a dumdum bullet.
AFI were testing mycoherbicides genetically engineered to be plant specific on Cannabis saliva on the coast, and on Erythroxylon coca in the mountains.