lime (1), liim, lym, lyme

[A. S. lim = bitumen, cement; cogn. with Dut. lifm =glue, lime; Icel. lim glue, lime, chalk; Dan. liim =glue; Sw. lim =glue; Ger. leim =glue; M. H. Ger. lim =birdlime; Lat. limus mud, slime.] I. Ord. Lang .: A viscous substance smeared on twigs for the purpose of catching birds; birdlime (q. v.). "Poor bird! thou'dst never fear the net or lime." Shakesp.: Macbeth, iv. 2 II. Technically: 1. Chem.: [CALCIUM OXIDE.] 2. Geol., .: The chief states in which lime occurs in geological strata are the carbonate, the phosphate, and the sulphate of lime. (For the origin of the lime itself, see LIMESTONE.) Phosphate of lime may come from bone, from coprolites, .; sulphate of lime is clearly le organic. "And big an a strong castel of lym and off ston." Robert of Gloucester, p. 127. 3. Pharm .: Lime, but only in the form of Liquor calcis , is sometimes given internally as an antacid. Externally applied it acts as a caustic. 4. Sugar - manuf .: Lime water used in clarifying coarse sugar. Lime-alumina garnet Gro ularite; Lime-and soda me so type= mesolite , a member of the Me so type group; Lime-arsenate Pharmacolite ; Lime-borate = Bechilite ; Lime-borosilicate = Datolite ; Lime carbonate Aragonite and Calcite (q. v.); Lime felspar = Anorthite ; Lime-fluate, Lime-fluoride= Fluorite; Lime-harmotome = Phillipsite ; Lime me so type a member of the Me so type group (q. v.); Lime-nitrate= Nitro calcite (q.v.); Lime-oxalate= Whewellite; Lime-oligoclase = Hafnefiordite ; Lime-phosphate= Apatite ; Lime-silicate= Wollas tonite; Lime-soda felspar= Labradorite ; Lime-sulphate Anhydrite and Gypsum ; Lime-titanate= Per of skite ; Lime-tungstate=Scheelite, and Lime uranite Autunite (q. v.).