tacky substance

They hadn't let me wash the blood off my right hand, and it had dried to a nice tacky substance.

In its solid form, it is the brown, tacky substance that is left behind on the end of the cigarette filter.

Every time he swung the sword, though, the blade was further ensnared in the tacky substance that made up the strands.

Stickies are tacky substances contained in the paper pulp and process water systems of paper machines.

Other repellents such as sticky, tacky substances placed on or near windows, trees or buildings may deter many birds and small mammals.

The mixture that's going to get you that light, airy texture is going to be a wet, tacky substance that's not so easy to roll."

Stickies (papermaking) are tacky substances that causes deposits in papermaking, especially in deinking.

This month, Ms. Atis, who is based in Clark, N.J., was awarded United States Patent 6,503,521 for a tacky substance filled with tiny fibers that she says makes eyelashes appear plumper and longer.

Patent for a Reinvention of Mascara Balanda Atis, a researcher at Maybelline, has received a patent for a tacky substance filled with tiny fibers that she says makes eyelashes appear plumper and longer.