Soft, moist earth or clay, having an adhesive quality; viscous mud.
Any mucilaginous substance; any substance of a dirty nature, that is moist, soft, and adhesive.
Mud containing metallic ore, obtained in the preparatory dressing.
A mucuslike substance which exudes from the bodies of certain animals.
slippery substance consisting of protozoa, algae, bacteria, and polymers. Slimes are often carbohydrate polymers made by bacteria and yeasts from sugars.
small clusters of bacteria that can become imbedded in the paper on the wet end of the paper machine
any thick messy substance
(1) very small solid particles which are known to pass through a 400 mesh screen. Ore reduced to fine powder and held in suspension in water so as to form a kind of thin mud.
Any of numerous substances of viscous organic nature that are usually formed from microbial growth and that attach themselves to other objects, forming a coating.