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uliginous, a.|juːˈlɪdʒɪnəs|
[f. as prec., or directly f. L. ūlīgin- + -ous. Cf. F. uligineux (of soil or plants).]
1. Of a watery, slimy, or oozy nature.
1576Newton Lemnie's Complex. ii. iii. 109 b, For it is a certayne vliginous moystishnes and superfluous excrement, which ought rather to be sent out and purged. 1610W. Folkingham Art of Survey i. x. 24 It reuiues the radicall and vliginous humour. a1656Ussher Ann. vi. (1658) 240 One Proxenus..found a spring of a fatty, and uliginous, or oily liquor. 1669Phil. Trans. IV. 1132 The Birch and Alder feed more kindly on a thin uliginous moisture. a1728Woodward Fossils (1729) I. 118 The uliginous lacteous Matter,..in the Coral Fishings upon the Coast of Italy, was only a Collection of the Corallin Particles thus sustained in the Sea Water.
2. Of places: Soaked with water or moisture; water-logged, plashy, swampy.
1610W. Folkingham Art of Survey i. x. 33 Their vliginous and soaked Mosses doe recompence their meane ayre with vnctious Turffes. 1620Venner Via Recta i. 20 Contrary to this is that which is of a laxe and open substance, such as is commonly growen in low and vliginous places. 1664Evelyn Sylva xv. 32 The water-galls, and uliginous parts of Forests that hardly bear any grass, do many times spontaneously produce it in abundance. 1699― Acetaria (1729) 155 Those who live in marshes and uliginous Places like the Hundreds of Essex. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. 705 Uliginous channels, those connecting the branches of rivers, by cuts through the soil.
b. Similarly of soil.
1650Charleton tr. Van Helmont's Paradoxes 15 If..they are..buried in a muddy uliginous earth; when they begin to putrifie, they then operate upon..the Patient. 1802R. Hall Bot. 192 Uliginous Soil,..spongy, filled with putrid water.
†3. Of air: Damp, moist. Obs. rare.
1661Evelyn Fumifugium Misc. Writ. (1805) i. 217 The impure and uliginous [air], as that which proceeds from stagnated places, is..the most vile and pestilent. 1697R. Pierce Bath Mem. 85 He liv'd near the Fenns, to which Uliginous Air, was ascrib'd the beginning of his Illness. |
