To treat or dress with lime. To smear or coat with lime-wash. Obsolete. (Also white lime, n.)

figurative. To make white or pale as by rubbing with chalk; to blanch.

transitive. Chiefly poetic and literary. To cover or coat (an object, surface, etc.) with a white substance, as though with whitewash; (also) to…

to lime-wash.

(a) n. a mixture of lime and water, used for coating walls, etc.; (b) v. to whitewash with such a mixture.

transitive. To whiten with hearthstone.

transitive. To whiten or polish (leather, etc.) with pipeclay; (Australian) †to decorate (the body) with pipeclay (obsolete).

transitive. To clean or whiten (a hearth, doorstep, etc.) by scouring with a hearthstone (hearthstone, n. 2).

= calcimine, n. Also as v. transitive and intransitive, to whitewash with kalsomine.

(transitive) to treat with blanco.