rare. [f. STICK v.1 + -AGE.] Tendency to stick; adhesion or cohesion.
1764. J. Ferguson, Lect., iii. 39. The resistance arising from the cohesion or stickage of the wood.
1794. G. Adams, Nat. & Exp. Philos., III. xxxi. 259. Percussion puts all the parts of the wood into a tremulous motion; which by disuniting them, lessens the stickage.
