a. Chiefly dial. [f. CLAG + -Y.] Tending to clag, or to form sticky lumps or clots; tenaciously sticky, adhesive. Hence Clagginess.

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1570.  Levins, Manip., 98. Claggye, lubricus.

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1611.  Cotgr., Iotteux, claggie, clammie, cleauing.

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1788.  W. Marshall, E. Yorksh. Gloss., Claggy, sticky, as wet clay.

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1796.  Pearson, in Phil. Trans., LXXXVI. 433. To render copper less tough and clingy (note, The workmen say, claggy).

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1838.  Blackw. Mag., XLIV. 540. The spider spreads his claggy snares.

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1876.  Robinson, Whitby Gloss. (E. D. S.). Claggy, sticky like pitch; tenacious.—Clagginess, adhesiveness.

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1881.  Raymond, Mining Gloss., Claggy, Newc., when the coal is tightly joined to the roof, the mine is said to have a claggy top.

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