MUGEARY (n. medical) The substance from which the unpleasant little yellow globules in the corners of a sleepy person's eyes are made.

A little red globule slid past her gaze and attached itself to her shirt . . . blood.

He didn't have to watch that huge face for long to see the cloud decks turning, those turbulent bands and chains of little white globules chasing each other around the stripy bands.

Chicken fat added rich flavor and sat in little golden globules on the surface of the soup.

It is solved," he cried, "the little globules are alive-they are parasites!

The flame applied to the safe was almost colourless, but Fraser saw the steel surface itself change colour, and almost at once little globules of molten metal began falling to the concrete floor.

His mouth, a gash in his caricature of a human head, slavered a white frost that floated away in little frozen globules.

"Drink water for a while," I said, buzzing up the little globules.

Many passages are covered with so much polish that they form little globules of self-parody.

The artist began by marking the body of the stuffed toy squirrel at triangular intervals with little globules of colored glue.