Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for CLAM'MY
CLAM'MY, a. [See Clam.]
Thick, viscous, adhesive; soft and sticky; glutinous; tenacious; as, bodies clammy and cleaving. – Bacon. Cold sweat, in clammy drops, his limbs o'erspread. – Dryden.
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