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Webster 1913 Edition


Lime

Lime

(līm)
,
Noun.
[See
Leam
a string.]
A thong by which a dog is led; a leash.
Halliwell.

Lime

,
Noun.
[Formerly
line
, for earlier
lind
. See
Linden
.]
(Bot.)
The linden tree. See
Linden
.

Lime

,
Noun.
[AS.
līm
; akin to D.
lijm
, G.
leim
, OHG.
līm
, Icel.
līm
, Sw.
lim
, Dan.
liim
, L.
limus
mud,
linere
to smear, and E.
loam
. √126. Cf.
Loam
,
Liniment
.]
1.
Birdlime.
Like the
lime

That foolish birds are caught with.
Wordsworth.
☞ 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.
Chaucer.

Lime

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Limed
(līmd)
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Liming
.]
[Cf. AS.
gelīman
to glue or join together. See
Lime
a viscous substance.]
1.
To smear with a viscous substance, as birdlime.
These twigs, in time, will come to be
limed
.
L’Estrange.
2.
To entangle; to insnare.
We had
limed
ourselves
With open eyes, and we must take the chance.
Tennyson.
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
.
Sir J. Child.

Webster 1828 Edition


Lime

LIME

,
Noun.
[L. limus; Gr. and allied to clammy. On this word is formed slime.]
1.
A viscous substance, sometimes laid on twigs for catching birds.
2.
Calcarious earth, oxyd of calcium, procured from chalk and certain stones and shells, by expelling from them the carbonic acid, by means of a strong heat in a furnace. The best lime for mortar or cement is obtained from limestone, or carbonate of lime, of which marble is a fine species.
3.
The linden tree.
4.
[See Lemon.] A species of acid fruit, smaller than the lemon.

LIME

, v.t.
1.
To smear with a viscous substance.
2.
To entangle; to ensnare.
3.
To manure with lime.
Land may be improved by draining, marling and liming.
4.
To cement.

Definition 2024


limé

limé

See also: lime

French

Verb

limé m (feminine singular limée, masculine plural limés, feminine plural limées)

  1. past participle of limer

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Spanish

Verb

limé

  1. First-person singular (yo) preterite indicative form of limar.