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Lime   /laɪm/   Listen
noun
Lime  n.  A thong by which a dog is led; a leash.


Lime  n.  (Bot.) The linden tree. See Linden.


Lime  n.  
1.
(Bot.) The fruit of the Citrus aurantifolia, allied to the lemon, but greener in color; also, the tree which bears it. Note: The term lime was formerly also applied to variants of the closely related citron, of which there are two varieties, Citrus Medica, var. acida which is intensely sour, and the sweet lime (Citrus Medica, var. Limetta) which is only slightly sour. See citron.
2.
The color of the lime (1), a yellowish-green.


Lime  n.  
1.
Birdlime. "Like the lime That foolish birds are caught with."
2.
(Chem.) Oxide of calcium, CaO; the white or gray, caustic substance, usually called quicklime, obtained by calcining limestone or shells, the heat driving off carbon dioxide and leaving lime. It develops great heat when treated with water, forming slaked lime, and is an essential ingredient of cement, plastering, mortar, etc. Note: Lime is the principal constituent of limestone, marble, chalk, bones, shells, etc.
Caustic lime, Calcium hydroxide or slaked lime; also, in a less technical sense, calcium oxide or quicklime.
Lime burner, one who burns limestone, shells, etc., to make lime.
Lime pit, a limestone quarry.
Lime rod, Lime twig, a twig smeared with birdlime; hence, that which catches; a snare.


verb
Lime  v. t.  (past & past part. limed; pres. part. liming)  
1.
To smear with a viscous substance, as birdlime. "These twigs, in time, will come to be limed."
2.
To entangle; to insnare. "We had limed ourselves With open eyes, and we must take the chance."
3.
To treat with lime, or oxide or hydrate of calcium; to manure with lime; as, to lime hides for removing the hair; to lime sails in order to whiten them; to lime the lawn to decrease acidity of the soil. "Land may be improved by draining, marling, and liming."
4.
To cement. "Who gave his blood to lime the stones together."


adjective
lime  adj.  Having a yellowish-green color like that of the lime (the fruit).





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"Lime" Quotes from Famous Books



... our semi-barbarous ancestors, as described by Holingshed, where earth mixed with lime formed the floor; where the fire was laid to the wall; where the smoke, which, besides hardening timber, was "expected to keep the good man and his family from quake and fever, curled from the door; and where the bed was a straw pallet, with a log of wood for a pillow. But the Congoese is better ...
— Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2 • Richard F. Burton
... Go and put chloride of lime round the cook-house," Mac was shouting through the window at the receding medico. "And ask yon woman if she has a hairpin. My pipe. . . ." But the Doctor ...
— No Man's Land • H. C. McNeile
... corners; and like the wonderful carpet the fairy-tale speaks of, that flits across space to obey its master's command, it steers its straight course, bending forward a little as though to hide in its folds the sacred presence of the future, towards the willow, the pear-tree, or lime whereon the queen has alighted; and round her each rhythmical wave comes to rest, as though on a nail of gold, and suspends its fabric of pearls and ...
— The Life of the Bee • Maurice Maeterlinck
... behind them orange, lime, and lemon trees, bananas, in abundance, shaddocks, citrons, pine-apples, figs, custard apples, cocoa-nuts, sugar-cane, and many other plants. In addition, paw-paws, bananas, and cocoa-nuts were planted in many other places where it was thought ...
— The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 • Ernest Favenc
... went into the bungalow. Gradually their voices died away in the distance, but the boy never moved, never shifted his blank stare from the cards in front of him. It was a curious tableau. In the midst of the darkness it was as though a lime-light had been thrown on to a theatrical representation of despair, while beneath, hidden by the shadow, a lonely spectator, to whom the scene was a horrible revelation, fought out a hard ...
— The Native Born - or, The Rajah's People • I. A. R. Wylie


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