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lime water

n. (alternative spelling of limewater English)

Usage examples of "lime water".

He sipped his lime water, shook his head, and dropped in the peel.

A newspaper friend, who once drank too much, still hangs out in the bars, drinking Perrier lime water at two dollars a bottle.

Then through a second chamber, charged with lime water, it bubbles, losing all impurities and useless gases.

Linseed oil, mixed with an equal quantity of lime water, known then as Carron Oil, is an excellent application for burns and scalds.

Mothers rubbed hot lime water on babies faces to keep hair from growing.

Monsieur Bertholet, by dissolving silver in the nitrous acid, precipitating it with lime water, and drying the precipitate on ammoniac, has discovered a powder which fulminates most powerfully, on coming into contact with any substance whatever.