Lime: alternatives and connections

Sticky; tenacious, as glutinous substances.

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A genus of trees including the orange, lemon, citron, etc., originally natives of southern Asia.

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To overspread the surface of (one thing) with another; as, to cover wood with paint or lacquer; to cover a table with a cloth.

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A hydrate; a substance containing hydrogen and oxygen, made by combining water with an oxide, and yielding water by elimination. The hydroxides are r…

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A binary compound of oxygen with an atom or radical, or a compound which is regarded as binary; as, iron oxide, ethyl oxide, nitrogen oxide, etc.

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To strew about; to sprinkle around; to throw down loosely; to deposit or place here and there, esp. in an open or sparse order.

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Any perennial woody plant of considerable size (usually over twenty feet high) and growing with a single trunk.

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An American tree of the genus Populus or poplar, having the seeds covered with abundant cottonlike hairs; esp., the P. monilifera and P. angustifolia…

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The bass (Tilia) or its wood; especially, T. Americana. See Bass, the lime tree.

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An elementary substance; a metal which combined with oxygen forms lime. It is of a pale yellow color, tenacious, and malleable. It is a member of the…

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A handsome tree (Tilia Europaea), having cymes of light yellow flowers, and large cordate leaves. The tree is common in Europe.

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The bass (Tilia) or its wood; especially, T. Americana. See Bass, the lime tree.

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An extremely adhesive viscid substance, usually made of the middle bark of the holly, by boiling, fermenting, and cleansing it. When a twig is smeare…

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Quicklime.

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A handsome tree (Tilia Europaea), having cymes of light yellow flowers, and large cordate leaves. The tree is common in Europe.

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Calcium oxide; unslacked lime; -- so called because when wet it develops great heat. See 4th Lime, 2.

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