What is "viscous"

Usage examples of "viscous".

The steepness of the cone suggested viscous lava flows, which on Earth would mean a predominance of andesitic rock.

And in the stygian grotto I saw them do the rite, and adore the sick pillar of flame, and throw into the water handfuls gouged out of the viscous vegetation which glittered green in the chlorotic glare.

There were hideous struggles with the bleached viscous Dholes in the primal tunnels that honeycombed the planet.

At the end farthest from the dolmen there was a dark viscous patch, about four inches in diameter, overlying a little drift of gravel.

Sonja recognized the viscous glop as ectoplasm, although in quantities unprecedented in the annals of paranormal history.

His lap and waist transformed, slumping from flesh and bone into thick jelly, and then into a viscous pink protoplasmic slime, all in a few moments.

Krisa looked up from the semi-doze the warm water had put her into and saw that the Yss woman had a clay jar filled with a pale purple viscous liquid in one six-fingered hand.

Pointing her microlight down, she saw a viscous, two-inch layer of what appeared to be semiliquid obsidian.

The additional heat turned it from viscous to near liquid, so that it dropped off the conduit and deep into the perfervid bowels of the O-daiko itself.

This was partly because drinking it spaced out the viscous gobbets and partly because both Plaice and Bonden had salted the dish, which bred an unnatural thirst, but also because the wine was thoroughly agreeable in itself.

The medpac he produced contained only the mildest anesthetic, so Selby was just as glad to focus on describing the mission as Quarle gently cleaned the burn and slathered a viscous green gel over it.

Viscous obstacles were clawed through in rapid succession, and at length I felt that we had been borne to realms of greater remoteness than any we had previously known.

Down the side-streets they could see the great viscous mass lifting over the rooftops, flowing through the gutted buildings which in turn helped to rigidify them.

When the cloudy, viscous semifluid on the watch glass began to move itself he knew he was on the right track.

He gazed about the black streaming crags, the slopes between them covered with coarse matted grass, yellow viscous cabbages, many of them in a state of slow decay, or raw spewy earth, the dung of seabirds everywhere, and the whole enveloped in drifting swatches of mist or rain.