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–noun

Also called burnt lime, calcium oxide, caustic lime, calx, quicklime. a white or grayish-white, odorless, lumpy, very slightly water-soluble solid, CaO, that when combined with water forms calcium hydroxide (slaked lime), obtained from calcium carbonate, limestone, or oyster shells: used chiefly in mortars, plasters, and cements, in bleaching powder, and in the manufacture of steel, paper, glass, and various chemicals of calcium.

2.	a calcium compound for improving crops grown in soils deficient in lime.

birdlime.

–verb (used with object)

4.	to treat (soil) with lime or compounds of calcium.

5.	to smear (twigs, branches, etc.) with birdlime.

6.	to catch with or as if with birdlime.

7.	to paint or cover (a surface) with a composition of lime and water; whitewash: The government buildings were freshly limed.

[Origin: bef. 900; ME, OE līm; c. D lijm, G Leim, ON līm glue, L līmus slime; akin to loam

]

—Related forms

limeless, adjective

limelike, adjective

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lime2

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–noun

1.	the small, greenish-yellow, acid fruit of a citrus tree, Citrus aurantifolia, allied to the lemon.

2.	the tree that bears this fruit.

3.	greenish yellow.

–adjective

4.	of the color lime.

5.	of or made with limes.

[Origin: 1615–25; < Sp lima < Ar līmah, līm citrus fruit < Pers līmū(n); cf. lemon

]

—Related forms

limeless, adjective

limelike, adjective

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lime3

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–noun

the European linden, Tilia europaea.

[Origin: 1615–25; unexplained var. of obs. line, lind, ME, OE lind. See linden

]

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lime4

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–noun Informal.

limelight.

[Origin: shortened form

]

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calcium oxide
n. A white, caustic, lumpy powder, CaO, used as a refractory, as a flux, in manufacturing steel and paper, in glassmaking, in waste treatment, in insecticides, and as an industrial alkali. Also called lime³.

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lime¹ Audio Help (līm) Pronunciation Key
n.

A spiny evergreen shrub or tree (Citrus aurantifolia), native to Asia and having leathery leaves, fragrant white flowers, and edible fruit.
The egg-shaped fruit of this plant, having a green rind and acid juice used as flavoring.

[Probably French from Spanish lima, from Arabic līma, līm, probably from līmūn, lemon; see lemon.]

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lime² Audio Help (līm) Pronunciation Key
n. See linden.

[Alteration of Middle English lind, line, from Old English lind.]

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lime³ Audio Help (līm) Pronunciation Key
n.

1. See calcium oxide.
2. Any of various mineral and industrial forms of calcium oxide differing chiefly in water content and percentage of constituents such as silica, alumina, and iron. Also called quicklime.
Birdlime.

tr.v. limed, lim·ing, limes

To treat with lime.
To smear with birdlime.
To catch or snare with or as if with birdlime.

[Middle English lim, from Old English līm, birdlime; see lei- in Indo-European roots.]

lim'y adj.

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n. Any of various deciduous shade trees of the genus Tilia having heart-shaped leaves, drooping cymose clusters of yellowish, often fragrant flowers, and peduncles united into a large lingulate bract. Also called basswood, lime².

[Middle English, made of linden wood, from Old English, from lind, linden.]

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lime (1)

"chalky mineral used in making mortar," from O.E. lim "sticky substance, birdlime, mortar," from P.Gmc. *leimaz (cf. O.N. lim, Du. lijm, Ger. Leim), from PIE base *(s)lei- "slime, slimy, sticky" (cf. L. limus "slime, mud, mire," linere "to smear;" O.E. slim "slime;" Skt. linati "adheres to, slips into, disappears;" Gk. alinein "to anoint, besmear;" O.Ir. leinam "I follow," lit. "I stick to"). Lime is made by putting limestone or shells in a red heat, which burns off the carbonic acid and leaves a brittle white solid which dissolves easily in water. Birdlime is a viscous sticky stuff prepared from holly bark and used to catch small birds. Limestone is first attested 1523.

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lime (2)

"type of citrus fruit," 1638, from Sp. lima, from Arabic limah "citrus fruit," a back-formation or a collective noun from limun "lemon" (see lemon).

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lime (3)

"linden tree," 1625, from M.E. lynde, from O.E. lind (see linden). The change of -n- to -m- probably began in compounds whose second element began in a labial (e.g. line-bark, line-bast).

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lime
noun
1.	a caustic substance produced by heating limestone [syn: calcium hydroxide]
2.	a white crystalline oxide used in the production of calcium hydroxide [syn: calcium oxide]
3.	a sticky adhesive that is smeared on small branches to capture small birds [syn: birdlime]
4.	any of various related trees bearing limes
5.	any of various deciduous trees of the genus Tilia with heart-shaped leaves and drooping cymose clusters of yellowish often fragrant flowers; several yield valuable timber [syn: linden]
6.	the green acidic fruit of any of various lime trees
verb
1.	spread birdlime on branches to catch birds [syn: birdlime]
2.	cover with lime so as to induce growth; "lime the lawn"

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lime [laim] noun

the white substance left after heating limestone, used in making cement

Arabic:	كِلْس، جير
Chinese (Simplified):	石灰
Chinese (Traditional):	石灰
Czech:	vápno
Danish:	kalk
Dutch:	gebrande kalk
Estonian:	lubi
Finnish:	kalkki
French:	chaux
German:	der Kalk
Greek:	ασβέστης
Hungarian:	mész
Icelandic:	(óleskjað) kalk
Indonesian:	kapur
Japanese:	石灰

Korean:	석회
Latvian:	kaļķi
Lithuanian:	kalkės
Norwegian:	kalk
Polish:	wapno
Portuguese (Brazil):	cal
Portuguese (Portugal):	cal
Romanian:	var (nestins)
Russian:	известь
Slovak:	vápno
Slovenian:	apno
Spanish:	cal
Swedish:	kalk
Turkish:	(sönmüş) kireç

lime1 [laim] noun

a type of small, very sour, yellowish-green citrus fruit related to the lemon

Arabic:	لَيْمون حامِض
Chinese (Simplified):	酸橙
Chinese (Traditional):	酸橙
Czech:	limeta
Danish:	limefrugt; lime
Dutch:	tropische citroen
Estonian:	laim
Finnish:	limetti
French:	lime
German:	die Limone
Greek:	γλυκολέμονο
Hungarian:	lime
Icelandic:	súraldin
Indonesian:	limau nipis

Japanese:	ライムの実
Korean:	라임
Latvian:	laims
Lithuanian:	rūgščiavaisio citrinmedžio vaisius
Norwegian:	lime (frukt)
Polish:	limona
Portuguese (Brazil):	lima
Portuguese (Portugal):	lima
Romanian:	lămâie verde
Russian:	лайм
Slovak:	limet
Slovenian:	citronka
Swedish:	lime
Turkish:	misket limonu

lime2 [laim] noun

(also adjective) (of) the colour of this fruit
Example: lime walls

Arabic:	بِلَوْن الليْمون
Chinese (Simplified):	酸橙色的
Chinese (Traditional):	酸橙色的
Czech:	žlutozelený
Danish:	limefarvet
Dutch:	lichtgroen
Estonian:	rohekaskollane
Finnish:	vihertävänkeltainen
French:	lime
German:	das Zitronengelb, zitronengelb
Greek:	κιτρινοπράσινος
Hungarian:	citromsárga
Icelandic:	gulgrænn
Indonesian:	hijau kekuningan
Japanese:	うすみどり色 (の)

Korean:	라임나무
Latvian:	dzeltenzaļa krāsa; dzeltenzaļš-
Lithuanian:	gelsvai žalia spalva
Norwegian:	gulgrønn
Polish:	żółtawy
Portuguese (Brazil):	cor de lima
Portuguese (Portugal):	lima
Romanian:	de culoarea lămâii
Russian:	цвета лайма
Slovak:	žltozelený
Slovenian:	citronski
Spanish:	lima
Swedish:	limegrön
Turkish:	küf rengi

lime [laim] noun

a tree with rough bark and small heart-shaped leaves

Arabic:	زَيْزَفون
Chinese (Simplified):	（植）欧椴
Chinese (Traditional):	(植)歐椴
Czech:	lípa
Danish:	lindetræ
Dutch:	linde
Estonian:	pärn
Finnish:	lehmus
French:	tilleul
German:	die Linde
Greek:	φλαμουριά
Hungarian:	hársfa
Icelandic:	lind
Indonesian:	pohon limau

Japanese:	しなの木
Latvian:	liepa
Lithuanian:	liepa
Norwegian:	lind
Polish:	lipa
Portuguese (Brazil):	tília
Portuguese (Portugal):	tília
Romanian:	tei
Russian:	липа
Slovak:	lipa
Slovenian:	lipa
Swedish:	lind
Turkish:	ıhlamur ağacı

See also: limelight: in the limelight, limestone

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A white, lumpy, caustic powder made of calcium oxide sometimes mixed with other chemicals. It is made industrially by heating limestone, bones, or shells. Lime is used as an industrial alkali, in waste treatment, and in making glass, paper, steel, insecticides, and building plaster. It is also added to soil to lower its acidity.

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Lime Springs, IA (city, FIPS 45165) Location: 43.45023 N, 92.28113 W
Population (1990): 438 (223 housing units)
Area: 2.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 52155

Lime Ridge, PA (CDP, FIPS 43320) Location: 41.02362 N, 76.35527 W
Population (1990): 1051 (439 housing units)
Area: 3.4 sq km (land), 0.7 sq km (water)

Lime Ridge, WI (village, FIPS 44225) Location: 43.46823 N, 90.15642 W
Population (1990): 152 (69 housing units)
Area: 2.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

Lime Village, AK (CDP, FIPS 44030) Location: 61.43281 N, 155.47253 W
Population (1990): 42 (17 housing units)
Area: 138.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

Lime Lake-Machias, NY (CDP, FIPS 42350) Location: 42.42836 N, 78.48232 W
Population (1990): 1269 (741 housing units)
Area: 8.5 sq km (land), 1.0 sq km (water)

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Lime

Caus"tic\, Caustical \Caus"tic*al\, a. [L. caustucs, Ge. ?, fr. ? to burn. Cf. Calm, Ink.]

1. Capable of destroying the texture of anything or eating away its substance by chemical action; burning; corrosive; searing.

2. Severe; satirical; sharp; as, a caustic remark.

Caustic curve (Optics), a curve to which the ray of light, reflected or refracted by another curve, are tangents, the reflecting or refracting curve and the luminous point being in one plane.

Caustic lime. See under Lime.

Caustic potash, Caustic soda (Chem.), the solid hydroxides potash, KOH, and soda, NaOH, or solutions of the same.

Caustic silver, nitrate of silver, lunar caustic.

Caustic surface (Optics), a surface to which rays reflected or refracted by another surface are tangents. Caustic curves and surfaces are called catacaustic when formed by reflection, and diacaustic when formed by refraction.

Syn: Stinging; cutting; pungent; searching.

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Lime

Lem"on\ (l[e^]m"[u^]n), n. [F. limon, Per. l[imac]m[=u]n; cf. Ar. laim[=u]n, Sp. limon, It. limone. Cf. Lime a fruit.]

1. (Bot.) An oval or roundish fruit resembling the orange, and containing a pulp usually intensely acid. It is produced by a tropical tree of the genus Citrus, the common fruit known in commerce being that of the species C. Limonum or C. Medica (var. Limonum). There are many varieties of the fruit, some of which are sweet.

2. The tree which bears lemons; the lemon tree.

Lemon grass (Bot.), a fragrant East Indian grass (Andropogon Sh[oe]nanthus, and perhaps other allied species), which yields the grass oil used in perfumery.

Lemon sole (Zo["o]l.), a yellow European sole (Solea aurantiaca).

Salts of lemon (Chem.), a white crystalline substance, inappropriately named, as it consists of an acid potassium oxalate and contains no citric acid, which is the characteristic acid of lemon; -- called also salts of sorrel. It is used in removing ink stains. See Oxalic acid, under Oxalic. [Colloq.]

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Lime

Lime\ (l[imac]m), n. [See Leam a string.] A thong by which a dog is led; a leash. --Halliwell.

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Lime

Lime\, n. [Formerly line, for earlier lind. See Linden.] (Bot.) The linden tree. See Linden.

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Lime

Lime\, n. [F. lime; of Persian origin. See Lemon.] (Bot.) A fruit allied to the lemon, but much smaller; also, the tree which bears it. There are two kinds; Citrus Medica, var. acida which is intensely sour, and the sweet lime (C. Medica, var. Limetta) which is only slightly sour.

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