What is the meaning of LIME. Phrases containing LIME
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Bird lime is London Cockney rhyming slang for time.
Limer is caribbean slang or a hanger−on.
Time. What's the Harry Lime? Harry Lime is a character in 'The Third Man'
Lime is caribbean slang for to sit or stand around on the pavement.
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Limey is American and Canadian slang for a British person.
Englishman, derives from the lime juice given to English sailors long ago to prevent scurvy.
Lemon and lime is London Cockney rhyming slang for time.
Harry Lime is London Cockney rhyming slang for time.
Limehouse cut is London Cockney rhyming slang for a paunch (gut).
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Englishman, derives from the lime juice given to English sailors long ago to prevent scurvy.
Lager and lime is London Cockney rhyming slang for time.
n 1. A British sailor. 2. An English person.
Noun. An English person. Derived from the habit, on long journeys, of supplying lime juice to English sailors as a preventative against scurvy. [Orig. Aust. 1880s]
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Whitewashed or plastered with lime.
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A large and handsome American butterfly (Basilarchia, / Limenitis, archippus). Its wings are orange-red, with black lines along the nervures and a row of white spots along the outer margins. The larvae feed on willow, poplar, and apple trees.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Either one of two pigments (called blue verditer, and green verditer) which are made by treating copper nitrate with calcium carbonate (in the form of lime, whiting, chalk, etc.) They consist of hydrated copper carbonates analogous to the minerals azurite and malachite.
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A limehound; a limmer.
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Not slaked; unslacked; as, an unslaked thirst; unslaked lime.
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A rock consisting chiefly of calcium carbonate or carbonate of lime. It sometimes contains also magnesium carbonate, and is then called magnesian or dolomitic limestone. Crystalline limestone is called marble.
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A beautiful North American butterfly (Basilarchia, / Limenitis, astyanax). Its wings are nearly black with red and blue spots and blotches. Called also red-spotted purple.
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A kiln or furnace in which limestone or shells are burned and reduced to lime.
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A general term for the uranium phosphates, autunite, or lime uranite, and torbernite, or copper uranite.
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A mineral occurring in tetragonal crystals, and also massive, of a brown to green color, rarely sulphur yellow and blue. It is a silicate of alumina and lime with some iron magnesia, and is common at Vesuvius. Also called idocrase.
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An earthy oxide of manganese, or mixture of different oxides and water, with some oxide of iron, and often silica, alumina, lime, or baryta; black ocher. There are several varieties.
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Water impregnated with lime; esp., an artificial solution of lime for medicinal purposes.
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A mineral occurring in small six-sided tabular crystals of a green or yellow color. It is a hydrous vanadate of copper and lime.
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