lime¹ /līm/

1. Bird-lime, a sticky substance for catching birds
2. Any slimy or gluey material (dialect)
3. The white caustic earth (calcium oxide, quicklime, or caustic lime) obtained by driving off water and carbon dioxide from calcium carbonate (eg in the form of limestone)
4. Calcium hydroxide (slaked lime) obtained by adding water to quicklime
5. Loosely, limestone or calcium carbonate

Of lime

1. To cover with lime
2. To treat with lime
3. To manure with lime
4. To ensnare, trap (also figurative)
5. To cement (dialect)

To adulterate wine with lime

līmˈiness noun

līmˈing noun

1. In the preparation of leather, etc, the soaking of skins in limewater to remove hair
2. The application of lime

līmˈy adjective

1. Glutinous, sticky (dialect)
2. Smeared with, containing, like or of the nature of, lime

limeˈ-burner noun

Someone who calcines limestone, etc to form lime

limeˈkiln noun

A kiln or furnace in which calcium carbonate is reduced to lime

limeˈlight noun

1. The glare of publicity (from a type of lamp formerly used in theatre stage lighting, which used heated lime to provide light)
2. Light produced by a blowpipe flame directed against a block of quicklime

transitive verb (pat and pap limeˈlit or limeˈlighted) (esp figurative)

To illuminate by limelight, to subject to the glare of limelight

limeˈpit noun

A lime-filled pit in which hides are steeped to remove hair

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