From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Glue \Glue\ (gl[=u]), noun [F. glu, L. glus, akin to gluten, from gluere to draw together. Cf. {Gluten}.] A hard brittle brownish gelatin, obtained by boiling to a jelly the skins, hoofs, etc., of animals. When gently heated with water, it becomes viscid and tenaceous, and is used as a cement for uniting substances. The name is also given to other adhesive or viscous substances.
{Fish glue}, a strong kind of glue obtained from fish skins and bladders; isinglass.
{Glue plant} (Bot.), a fucoid seaweed ({Gloiopeltis tenax}).
{Liquid glue}, a fluid preparation of glue and acetic acid or alcohol.
{Marine glue}, a solution of caoutchouc in naphtha, with shellac, used in shipbuilding.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Glue \Glue\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Glued}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Gluing}.] [F. gluer. See {Glue}, noun] To join with glue or a viscous substance; to cause to stick or hold fast, as if with glue; to fix or fasten.
This cold, congealed blood That glues my lips, and will not let me speak. --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: cement consisting of a sticky substance that is used as an adhesive [syn: {gum}, {mucilage}]
verb
1: join or attach with or as if with glue; "paste the sign ont the wall"; "cut and paste the sentence in the text" [syn: {paste}]
2: be fixed as if by glue; "His eyes were glued on her"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
125 Moby Thesaurus words for "glue": accouple, accumulate, adherent, adhesive, affix, agglutinate, albumen, amass, articulate, assemble, associate, band, barnacle, batter, bind, bond, bonnyclabber, bracket, bramble, braze, bridge, bridge over, brier, bulldog, burr, butter, cement, chain, clabber, clap together, collect, combine, comprise, concatenate, conglobulate, conjoin, conjugate, connect, copulate, cornstarch, couple, cover, cream, curd, decal, decalcomania, dough, egg white, embrace, encompass, fix, fuse, gather, gaum, gel, gelatin, glair, glop, gluten, goo, gook, goop, gruel, gum, gumbo, gunk, include, jam, jell, jelly, join, knot, lay together, league, leech, limpet, link, loblolly, lump together, marry, marshal, mass, merge, mobilize, molasses, mucilage, mucus, pair, pap, paste, piece together, plaster, porridge, prickle, pudding, pulp, puree, put together, putty, remora, rob, roll into one, seal, semifluid, semiliquid, size, solder, soup, span, splice, starch, stick, stick together, sticker, sticky mess, syrup, take in, tape, thorn, tie, treacle, unify, unite, weld, yoke
From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:
glue n. Generic term for any interface logic or protocol that connects two component blocks. For example, {Blue Glue} is IBM's SNA protocol, and hardware designers call anything used to connect large VLSI's or circuit blocks 'glue logic'.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
glue A generic term for any interface logic or {protocol} that connects two component blocks. For example, {Blue Glue} is IBM's SNA protocol, and hardware designers call anything used to connect large VLSI's or circuit blocks "glue logic". [{Jargon File}] (1999-02-22)
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