Word of the Day 6.5.08

vis·cous (vsks)

adj.

1. Having relatively high resistance to flow.

2. Viscid; sticky.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin viscsus; see viscose.]

viscous·ly adv.

viscous·ness n.

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