The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lime \Lime\, n. [AS. l[=i]m; akin to D. lijm, G. leim, OHG. l[=i]m, Icel. l[=i]m, Sw. lim, Dan. liim, L. limus mud, linere to smear, and E. loam. [root]126. Cf. Loam, Liniment.]
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Birdlime.
Like the lime That foolish birds are caught with.
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(Chem.) Oxide of calcium, CaO; 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 slaked lime, and is an essential ingredient of cement, plastering, mortar, etc.
Note: Lime is the principal constituent of limestone, marble, chalk, bones, shells, etc.
Caustic lime, Calcium hydroxide or slaked lime; also, in a less technical sense, calcium oxide or quicklime.
Lime burner, one who burns limestone, shells, etc., to make lime.
Lime pit, a limestone quarry.
Lime rod, Lime twig, a twig smeared with birdlime; hence, that which catches; a snare.
--Chaucer.
Usage examples of "lime pit".
Anyway, Minin was supposed to investigate, but you showed up first' Borya stared at the lime pit.
In the middle of the yard the lime pit in which he had found Jaak and Penyagin was swollen by the rain.
They'd taken passage on Falkane's ship when they'd fled the sewers under Baldur's Gate, Iakhovas had immediately demanded a cabin and went off to examine whatever treasure he'd captured from the lime pit.
Fortunata, my chick, go and draw me some ale, Im dry as a lime pit.
Because I'm the guy who dumped Dom and his fucking car down a lime pit in the fucking Angeles Forest.
The sound of a father's voice is various: like film burning, like marble being pulled screaming from the face of a quarry, like the clash of paper clips by night, lime seething in a lime pit, or batsong.
We searched the body before we dumped it in the lime pit and found nothing that might tell us anything about him, save he must have been recently in from the Isles, since he had some Kingdom silver coins on him.