Lime is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for LIME in dictionary:

VERB:
• to treat with lime
• treat (soil or water) with lime to reduce acidity and improve fertility or oxygen levels
• give (wood) a bleached appearance by treating it with lime
• catch (a bird) with birdlime
• sit or stand around talking with others
• To smear with a viscous substance, as birdlime.
• To entangle; to insnare.
• 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 cement.
• spread birdlime on branches to catch birds
• cover with lime so as to induce growth
• spread a calcium compound upon (land)
NOUN:
• calcium oxide
• a white caustic alkaline substance consisting of calcium oxide, which is obtained by heating limestone and which combines with water with the production of much heat; quicklime.
• a white alkaline substance consisting of calcium hydroxide, made by adding water to quicklime and used in traditional building methods to make plaster, mortar, and limewash.
• (in general use) any of a number of calcium compounds, especially calcium hydroxide, used as an additive to soil or water.
• birdlime.
• a rounded citrus fruit similar to a lemon but greener, smaller, and with a distinctive acid flavour
• a drink made from or flavoured with lime juice
• the evergreen citrus tree which produces limes, widely cultivated in warm climates.
• a bright light green colour like that of a lime
• a deciduous tree with heart-shaped leaves and fragrant yellowish blossom, native to north temperate regions. The pale timber is used for carving and inexpensive furniture.
• an informal social gathering characterized by semi-ritualized talking.
• calcium compound used as a fertilizer or in making cement
• A thong by which a dog is led; a leash.
• The linden tree. See Linden.
• A fruit allied to the lemon, but much smaller; also, the tree which bears it. There are two kinds; Citrus Medica, var. acida which is intensely sour, and the sweet lime (C. Medica, var. Limetta) which is only slightly sour.
• Oxide of calcium; 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 slacked lime, and is an essential ingredient of cement, plastering, mortar, etc.
• a caustic substance produced by heating limestone
• a white crystalline oxide used in the production of calcium hydroxide
• a sticky adhesive that is smeared on small branches to capture small birds
• any of various related trees bearing limes
• 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
• the green acidic fruit of any of various lime trees
ADJECTIVE:
• having the flavour of lime fruit
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to treat with lime (a calcium compound)

Words related to LIME

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Words that contain LIME

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How to use LIME in a sentence

• THE LIME IN THE MORTAR I shall presume in all my readers some slight knowledge about lime.
• And they had plenty of lime at hand if they had chosen to make mortar.
• Grasses and grains want a large proportion of phosphate of lime, which they convert into husks.
• An apparatus has recently been introduced to spread this lime powder.
• THE LIMEBURNER Four lime kilns were unearthed on the historic island, where oyster shells from the James River were burned and converted into lime by the limeburner.
• Much of the lime in our market will not, except it be quite damp, combine with the bromine.
• The iodine should be thoroughly combined with the lime, which will take about one or two days.
• The walls were whitened with a lime wash which disguised the primitive plaster filling in between the lateral logs.
• In mixing mortar, particular attention must be paid to the sand with which the lime or cement is mixed.
• Ordinary lime mortar may have its strength considerably enhanced by the addition of a small proportion of Portland cement.
• All cellar walls should be laid in good lime mortar, or if that be not practicable, they should be well pointed with it.
• He used to say that a small dose of lime did little or no good.
• Add a tablespoonful of lime juice and one-half a pint of melted butter.
• They also marked their graves with white lime, and so also in their intermediate feast-days.
• No better juice than lime juice, no better juice than lemon juice, no juice at all, no water, no sugar, no dirty glass.

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