Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of lime is as below...

Tenthmetre :: Tenthmetre (n.) A unit for the measurement of many small lengths, such that 1010 of these units make one meter; the ten millionth part of a millimeter..

Oligoclase :: Oligoclase (n.) A triclinic soda-lime feldspar. See Feldspar.

Stock :: Stock (n.) An irregular metalliferous mass filling a large cavity in a rock formation, as a stock of lead ore deposited in limestone..

Zeolite :: Zeolite (n.) A term now used to designate any one of a family of minerals, hydrous silicates of alumina, with lime, soda, potash, or rarely baryta. Here are included natrolite, stilbite, analcime, chabazite, thomsonite, heulandite, and others. These species occur of secondary origin in the cavities of amygdaloid, basalt, and lava, also, less frequently, in granite and gneiss. So called because many of these species intumesce before the blowpipe..

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

Splanchnic :: Splanchnapophysis (n.) Any element of the skeleton in relation with the alimentary canal, as the jaws and hyoidean apparatus..

Nutritive :: Nutritive (a.) Of or pertaining to nutrition; as, the nutritive functions; having the quality of nourishing; nutritious; nutrimental; alimental; as, nutritive food or berries..

Grand :: Grand (superl.) Great in size, and fine or imposing in appearance or impression; illustrious, dignifled, or noble (said of persons); majestic, splendid, magnificent, or sublime (said of things); as, a grand monarch; a grand lord; a grand general; a grand view; a grand conception..

Gut :: Gut (n.) An intenstine; a bowel; the whole alimentary canal; the enteron; (pl.) bowels; entrails.

Chemic :: Chemic (n.) A solution of chloride of lime.

Slime :: Slime (v. t.) To smear with slime.

Banquet :: Banquet (n.) A feast; a sumptuous entertainment of eating and drinking; often, a complimentary or ceremonious feast, followed by speeches..

Habilimented :: Habilimented (a.) Clothed. Taylor (1630).

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

Unslacked :: Unslacked (a.) Not slacked; unslaked; as, unslacked lime..

Limestone :: Limestone (n.) A rock consisting chiefly of calcium carbonate or carbonate of lime. It sometimes contains also magnesium carbonate, and is then called magnesian or dolomitic limestone. Crystalline limestone is called marble..

Peagrit :: Peagrit (n.) A coarse pisolitic limestone. See Pisolite.

Complimentary :: Complimentary (a.) Expressive of regard or praise; of the nature of, or containing, a compliment; as, a complimentary remark; a complimentary ticket..

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

Sublimity :: Sublimity (n.) The quality or state of being sublime (in any sense of the adjective).

Random Fonts

Most Popular