Lye

li, n. Water impregnated with alkali imbibed araufrom the ashes of wood, used in soap-making, etc.; i, — Lixivlal, -Y-al, a. Obtained by lixiviation; containing alkali extracted from wood-ashes; of the color of, or like lye or alkaline salts from wood-ashes. one — Lixiviate, -ated, a. Pert, to lye; impregnated with alkali from wood-ashes. —Lixiviate, v. t. To subject to the proce of lixiviation; to leach. — Lixiv'ialion, n. Operation or proce of extracting sol- — uble matter from insoluble by washing, filtering, or — leaching, as alkali from ashes. — Lixivium, -T-um, n. Water impregnated with soluble matter, as with alkaline salts imbibed from wood-ashes.