Crossword clues for quicklime
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. lime, (''calcium oxide''), produced by heating limestone; on treatment with water it gives slaked lime vb. (context transitive English) To treat with quicklime.
WordNet
n. a white crystalline oxide used in the production of calcium hydroxide [syn: calcium oxide, lime, calx, calcined lime, fluxing lime, unslaked lime, burnt lime]
Usage examples of "quicklime".
I told him that doctors often put bones into quicklime to whiten them nicely, and that I supposed Dr Pratt had once had a little lime pit in the garden for that purpose, and had forgotten the jaw.
It consists only of orpiment and quicklime, pounded together in a little olive oil, with a touch of musk added to make its aroma more pleasant.
But even in a Cathedral town, even after midnight, several successive expeditions of a lay precentor with a wheelbarrow full of quicklime would have been apt to attract the comment of some belated physician, some cleric coming from a sick bed, or some local roysterers.
Flies buzzed around them, even though the Japs did put down quicklime after a fresh corpse went in.
Land, burning limestone to make quicklime in kilns at a new quarry beside the Beautiful River, were not aware that they were being watched from above by dark and angry eyes.
Zoltan's improvement was a way to take quicklime, calcium oxide, and combine it with the ammonium chloride to get all the ammonia back, which we could then recycle.
When water is added to quicklime (calcium oxide), the result is immense heat.
The jugs held a mixture of fish oil, sulfur, naphtha oil that oozed out of rocks, and quicklime.
The local officer who advised on the process had suggested igniting it with water to spark on the quicklime.
I have here a cylindrical glass jar in which I place some sal-ammoniac and quicklime.
People vanish and their bodies are put in quicklime, or hidden graves, or mashed in an automobile-wrecking yard, or put in a coffin under a legitimate corpse, or .