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Lyme and Lime Definitions

Lyme

To hang out to spend time doing nothing in particular

Lime

Any of several evergreen trees or shrubs of the genus Citrus having edible green or greenish-yellow fruit, especially the Mexican lime and the Persian lime.

Lime

The fruit of any of these plants, having a pulpy interior and usually acid juice.

Lime

See linden.

Lime

See calcium oxide.

Lime

Any of various mineral and industrial forms of calcium oxide differing chiefly in water content and percentage of constituents such as magnesia, silica, alumina, and iron.
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Lime

Birdlime.

Lime

To treat with lime.

Lime

To smear with birdlime.

Lime

To catch or snare with or as if with birdlime.

Lime

(chemistry) Any inorganic material containing calcium, usually calcium oxide (quicklime) or calcium hydroxide (slaked lime).

Lime

(poetic) Any gluey or adhesive substance; something which traps or captures someone; sometimes a synonym for birdlime.
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Lime

(theatre) A spotlight.

Lime

A deciduous tree of the genus Tilia, especially Tilia × europaea; the linden tree.

Lime

The wood of this tree.

Lime

Any of several green citrus fruit, somewhat smaller and sharper-tasting than a lemon.

Lime

Any of the trees that bear limes, especially Key lime, Citrus aurantiifolia.

Lime

(uncountable) A brilliant, sometimes yellowish, green colour associated with the fruits of a lime tree.
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Lime

(fandom) A fan fiction story which contains sexual references, but stops short of full, explicit descriptions of sexual activity (coined by analogy with lemon).

Lime

A casual gathering to socialize.

Lime

(transitive) To treat with calcium hydroxide or calcium oxide (lime).

Lime

(transitive) To smear with birdlime.

Lime

(rare) To ensnare, catch, entrap.

Lime

(transitive) To apply limewash.

Lime

To hang out/socialize in an informal, relaxed environment, especially with friends, for example at a party or on the beach.

Lime

Containing lime or lime juice.

Lime

Having the aroma or flavor of lime.

Lime

Lime-green.

Lime

A thong by which a dog is led; a leash.

Lime

The linden tree. See Linden.

Lime

The fruit of the Citrus aurantifolia, allied to the lemon, but greener in color; also, the tree which bears it.

Lime

The color of the lime{1}, a yellowish-green.

Lime

Birdlime.
Like the limeThat foolish birds are caught with.

Lime

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.

Lime

To smear with a viscous substance, as birdlime.
These twigs, in time, will come to be limed.

Lime

To entangle; to insnare.
We had limed ourselvesWith open eyes, and we must take the chance.

Lime

To treat with lime, or oxide or hydrate of calcium; to manure with lime; as, to lime hides for removing the hair; to lime sails in order to whiten them; to lime the lawn to decrease acidity of the soil.
Land may be improved by draining, marling, and liming.

Lime

To cement.

Lime

Having a yellowish-green color like that of the lime (the fruit).

Lime

A caustic substance produced by heating limestone

Lime

A white crystalline oxide used in the production of calcium hydroxide

Lime

A sticky adhesive that is smeared on small branches to capture small birds

Lime

Any of various related trees bearing limes

Lime

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

Lime

The green acidic fruit of any of various lime trees

Lime

Spread birdlime on branches to catch birds

Lime

Cover with lime so as to induce growth;
Lime the lawn

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