| 释义 |
limy, a.|ˈlaɪmɪ|
[f. lime n.1 + -y.]
1. Besmeared with birdlime.
1552Huloet, Lymye or clammye, viscidus. 1591Spenser Muiopot. 429 He..wrapt his winges twaine In lymie snares the subtill loupes among. [In mod. Dicts.]
2. Consisting of or containing lime.
1676Phil. Trans. XI. 615 Some bolar, some sandy, some talky, some limy. 1681Grew Musæum 7 A human Skull cover'd all over with the Skin. Having been buried..in some Limy..soil, by which it was tann'd. 1813J. C. Eustace Italy I. xi. (1815) 387 Its limy ruins spread over the surface, burn the soil and check its natural fertility. 1876Page Adv. Text-Bk. Geol. iii. 66 Their flinty and limy cases..being aggregated in countless myriads. 1893Black & White 15 Apr. 464/2 Limy dust..fills the eyes.
3. Of the nature of lime, resembling lime.
1775A. Burnaby Trav. 34 There is peculiarity in the water at Winchester, owing..to the soil's being of a limy quality. |