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Definition of lime

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Lime (n.) Oxide of calcium; the white or gray, caustic substance, usually called quicklime, obtained by calcining limestone or shells, the heat driving off carbon dioxide and leaving lime. It develops great heat when treated with water, forming slacked lime, and is an essential ingredient of cement, plastering, mortar, etc..

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Ulexite :: Ulexite (n.) A mineral occurring in white rounded crystalline masses. It is a hydrous borate of lime and soda.

Compliment :: Compliment (v. i.) To pass compliments; to use conventional expressions of respect.

Sublime :: Sublime (v. t.) To exalt; to heighten; to improve; to purify.

Digest :: Digest (v. t.) To separate (the food) in its passage through the alimentary canal into the nutritive and nonnutritive elements; to prepare, by the action of the digestive juices, for conversion into blood; to convert into chyme..

Guttatrap :: Guttatrap (n.) The inspissated juice of a tree of the genus Artocarpus (A. incisa, or breadfruit tree), sometimes used in making birdlime, on account of its glutinous quality..

Leave-taking :: Leave-taking (n.) Taking of leave; parting compliments.

Grainer :: Grainer (n.) An infusion of pigeon's dung used by tanners to neutralize the effects of lime and give flexibility to skins; -- called also grains and bate.

Teil :: Teil (n.) The lime tree, or linden; -- called also teil tree..

Coralline :: Coralline (a.) Composed of corallines; as, coralline limestone..

Dedicator :: Dedicator (n.) One who dedicates; more especially, one who inscribes a book to the favor of a patron, or to one whom he desires to compliment..

Rhusma :: Rhusma (n.) A mixtire of caustic lime and orpiment, or tersulphide of arsenic, -- used in the depilation of hides..

Enteron :: Enteron (n.) The whole alimentary, or enteric, canal..

Sublimated :: Sublimable (v. t.) Capable of being sublimed or sublimated.

Winged :: Winged (a.) Soaring with wings, or as if with wings; hence, elevated; lofty; sublime..

Inalimental :: Inalimental (a.) Affording no aliment or nourishment.

Milli- :: Milli- () A prefix denoting a thousandth part of; as, millimeter, milligram, milliampere..

Salinometer :: Salinometer (n.) A salimeter.

Travertine :: Travertine (n.) A white concretionary form of calcium carbonate, usually hard and semicrystalline. It is deposited from the water of springs or streams holding lime in solution. Extensive deposits exist at Tivoli, near Rome..

Slimy :: Slimy (superl.) Of or pertaining to slime; resembling slime; of the nature of slime; viscous; glutinous; also, covered or daubed with slime; yielding, or abounding in, slime..

Oriskany :: Oriskany (a.) Designating, or pertaining to, certain beds, chiefly limestone, characteristic of the latest period of the Silurian age..