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Webster 1913 Edition
Lime
Lime
,Noun.
1.
Birdlime.
Like the
That foolish birds are caught with.
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
With open eyes, and we must take the chance.
limed
ourselvesWith 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.
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.