mucidnessEtymologyFrom mucid + -ness.nounThe state or condition of being mucid.“From whence it appears, that ſometimes compreſs’d Air is more diſpos’d to alter Colours, than uncompreſs’d; and it may not be amiſs to obſerve, that the Roſes after this manner ſhut up, did not acquire the leaſt Mucidneſs, but only a yellow Colour: But when the Experiment was try’d with Tulips and Lark-Spurs, the Succeſs was different.”