Limes is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for LIMES in dictionary:

VERB:
• 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
NOUN:
• (Latin) an ancient Roman fortified boundary
• 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.
• fortified boundary of the Roman Empire
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to treat with lime (a calcium compound)
• a fortified boundary

Words related to LIMES

lime6 limed8 liming9 limites9

Words that contain LIMES

climes10 glimes9 slimes8 delimes10 unlimes9 beslimes12 millimes12 sublimes12 birdlimes14 limescale13 limestone11 sublimest13 brooklimes18 limescales14 limestones12 quicklimes27

How to use LIMES in a sentence

• They seemed to walk carefully under the young foliage of the limes in order to avoid the rain, and in one of them he recognized distinctly Suzanne.
• He rapidly went round the parsonage, and he put on his shoes again only when he was at some distance, under the discreet shade of the limes.
• It is traversed with shady walks of elms and limes, and its inmates lie amidst thickets of ornamental shrubs and plantations of the most gaudy flowers.
• If a man limes a twig for birds, the birds will be caught, even if he thinks it superstitious to believe in birds at all.
• As for the limes, they were delightful and wholesome, the juice of which I after used to mix in water, which made it very cooling and refreshing.
• And now I was resolved to carry home and lay up a store of grapes, limes, and lemons, against the approaching wet season.
• Next in the curve are Betchworth Castle and Park, with majestic avenues of limes and elms, and fine old chestnut-trees.
• At Augsburg, in Germany, feasts and weddings have often been celebrated under the shade of some venerable limes that branch out to an immense distance.
• Lontane in disguise, the second in command of the police, the hero of the battle of the limes, the coal, and the potatoes.
• There were also many trees bearing little limes or lemons, of which we gathered abundance for making lemonade.
• So, then, I lay in thought, hearing a fountain play somewhere without my windows, and the rustle of the wind in the limes that stood along the Privy Garden.
• Everywhere are avenues and clumps of great trees, hedges of roses, of limes, and deronta encircle every garden, the green of the polo grounds is as that of the Emerald Isle.
• He walked home with the ladies, and afterward smoked a cigar with great deliberation under the limes.
• Upon the limes the amber leaves still hung, faint yet loath to go, but the horse-chestnut had already dropped its garment of green and yellow at its feet.
• Oranges, lemons and limes have been planted by Europeans and Arabs in a few districts.
• Martyn supped on limes and other fruits, and only produced his cheese when the Sherwoods came to supper.
• The sun went down behind the limes, that were covered with fresh green, and the mosquitoes swarmed in, stinging Nekhludoff.
• Why should the loyalty of a Catholic be less supreme? He walked with me a whole night under the limes at the bottom of the garden, and not a shadow of suspicion crossed his soul.
• He limes one field every year, and as the farm is laid off into eleven fields, all the land receives a dressing of lime once in eleven years.
• Davis, the teacher, that Amy March had pickled limes in her desk.
• We used gas footlights and gas limes there until we left the theater for good in 1902.
• Fortunes were made in oranges, lemons, limes, grapes, almonds and pears.
• Garman on the sofa, while the young people went down to the croquet lawn, which was shaded by the dense avenue of limes.

Similar words containing LIME without suffix s

lime6 clime9 glime8 limed8 limen7 limey10 slime7 blimey13 climes10 delime9 glimed10 glimes9 limens8 limeys11 slimed9 slimes8 unlime8 aliment9 beslime11 delimed11 delimes10 helimen12 limeade10 limelit9 limepit11 millime11 molimen11 sublime11 unlimed10 unlimes9 blimeys14 aliments10 beslimed13 beslimes12 birdlime13 limeades11 limekiln14 limeless10 limepits12 limerick16 limewash16 millimes12 molimens12 slimebag13 sublimed13 sublimer12 sublimes12 alimental11 alimented12 birdlimed15 birdlimes14 brooklime17 gorblimey17 jolliment18 limekilns15 limelight15 limerence13 limericks17 limescale13 limestone11 limewater14 quicklime26 salimeter11 salimetry14 slimebags14 slimeball13 sublimely16 sublimers13 sublimest13 blimeying17 alimentary15 alimenting13 brooklimes18 compliment18 gorblimeys18 habiliment17 jolliments19 limelights16 limerences14 limescales14 limestones12 limewashes18 limewaters15 millimeter14 millimetre14 quicklimes27 salimeters12 salimetric14 slimeballs14 unruliment12 unsublimed15 alkalimeter17 alkalimetry20 compliments19 habiliments18 limelighted18 limelighter17 millimeters15 millimetres15 salimetries13 Show more ...

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