Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - lime
Lime
lime
1. n. & v. --n. 1 (in full quicklime) a white caustic alkaline substance (calcium oxide) obtained by heating limestone and used for making mortar or as a fertilizer or bleach etc. 2 = BIRDLIME. --v.tr. 1 treat (wood, skins, land, etc.) with lime. 2 archaic catch (a bird etc.) with birdlime. Phrases and idioms lime water an aqueous solution of calcium hydroxide used esp. to detect the presence of carbon dioxide. Derivatives limeless adj. limy adj. (limier, limiest). Etymology: OE lim f. Gmc, rel. to LOAM 2. n. 1 a a round citrus fruit like a lemon but greener, smaller, and more acid. b the tree, Citrus aurantifolia, bearing this. 2 (in full lime-juice) the juice of limes as a drink and formerly esp. as a cure for scurvy. 3 (in full lime-green) a pale green colour like a lime. Etymology: F f. mod.Prov. limo, Sp. lima f. Arab. lima: cf. LEMON 3. n. 1 (in full lime-tree) any ornamental tree of the genus Tilia, esp. T. europaea with heart-shaped leaves and fragrant yellow blossom. Also called LINDEN. 2 the wood of this. Etymology: alt. of line = OE lind = LINDEN
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I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English līm; akin to Old High German līm bird~, Latin limus mud, s~, and perhaps to Latin linere to smear Date: before 12th century bird~, 2. a caustic highly infusible solid that consists of calcium oxide often together with magnesium oxide, that is obtained by calcining forms of calcium carbonate (as shells or ~stone), and that is used in building (as in mortar and plaster) and in agriculture, a dry white powder consisting essentially of calcium hydroxide that is made by treating quick~ with water, calcium , II. transitive verb (~d; liming) Date: 13th century to smear with a sticky substance (as bird~), to entangle with or as if with bird~, to treat or cover with ~ , III. adjective Date: 15th century of, relating to, or containing ~ or ~stone, IV. noun Etymology: alteration of Middle English lind, from Old English; akin to Old High German linta linden Date: 1625 a linden tree, V. noun Etymology: Middle French, from Spanish lima, from Arabic līma, līm Date: 1583 the small globose yellowish green fruit of a widely cultivated spiny tropical Asian citrus tree (Citrus aurantifolia) with a usually acid juicy pulp used as a flavoring agent and as a source of vitamin C, a tree that bears ~s ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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