[lahym] 
noun, verb, limed, lim⋅ing.| 1. | 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. |
| 3. | birdlime. |
| 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. |
[lahym] | 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. |
| 4. | of the color lime. |
| 5. | of or made with limes. |
[lahym] | the European linden, Tilia europaea. |
| 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. |
| lime 1 (līm) n.
[Probably French from Spanish lima, from Arabic līma, līm, probably from līmūn, lemon; see lemon.] |
| lime 2 (līm) n. See linden. [Alteration of Middle English lind, line, from Old English lind.] |
| lime 3 (līm) n.
[Middle English lim, from Old English līm, birdlime; see lei- in Indo-European roots.] lim'y adj. |
| lin·den (lĭn'dən) 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.] |
lime 1 (līm)
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.
lime 2
n.
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.
See calcium oxide.
Lime
The Hebrew word so rendered means "boiling" or "effervescing." From Isa. 33:12 it appears that lime was made in a kiln lighted by thorn-bushes. In Amos 2:1 it is recorded that the king of Moab "burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime." The same Hebrew word is used in Deut. 27:2-4, and is there rendered "plaster." Limestone is the chief constituent of the mountains of Syria.
| LIME laser induced microwave emissions |
