clammy

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

CLAMMY, adjective [See Clam.] Thick, viscous, adhesive; soft and sticky; glutinous; tenacious; as, bodies clammy and cleaving. Cold sweat, in clammy drops, his limbs oer-spread.
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