LIME

the fruit of sweet L. (Citrus | _Vimetta) and the W. Indian L. (C.| enelica acid a). It is greenish yellow in | color, about 114 in. in diameter, and | almost globular, but with a nipple at|times _ the top, and has a smooth, shiny rind. | _ The juice is very acid, and is much used as a summer drink. C. limetia is a small _ prickly tree about 10 ft. high, with white | _ blooms. _W.), county, Munster, Ireland; area, | ec. 1063 sq. miles; surface generally flat; | hills on W. and S. borders; watered by | “stock ra‘ 3; contains several ruine “monasteries.. Pop. 150,000. (2) (52° ° 39, old N., 8° 36’ W.), town, Ireland, on]; Shannon; R.C. and Anglican cathedrals; formerly fortified; important port; lace Pop. 50,000. i i ~ {to “which limited the Rom. provinces of | Upper Germany and Rhetia; extended from Bonn to Regensburg. ed d y _| “egy | EIMESTONE, coley existing a fm numero miner a: of vavievie bluish us [a “and composition. L. may be composed ‘of pure lime, carbonic acid, magnesia, hap ‘alumina, silica and iron. It is one of the} ji ‘most abundant of rocks, being com- -monest in the Secondary series; also ‘found as the result of aqueous deposit. ‘It has a granular structure. L. found] in gnei has large coarse grains; that 33° found in mica-slate is fine-grained. The | hills ‘chief varieties of 1. are Iceland spar, | calcium spar, chalk, granular limestone, |and_ Carbonic 1. is abundantly distributed, and stalactites (g.v.) and stalagmites. are found in 1. caverns. Petrifying wells, as at Knaresbro’ (Yorks), cover objects W.), Ar placed under their dropping. waters with 1, and if left long enough will eventually solidify them. Marble po e es the same chemical composition as 1., and is generally regarded as one Of its varieties. LEMITATION, STATUTES OF, Acts |limiting right of action to fixed time |after occurrence of events on which action is based.