LIME

Definitions

1. 1. To smear with a viscous substance, as birdlime. These twigs, in time, will come to be limed. L'Estrange.
2. 2. To entangle; to insnare. We had limed ourselves With open eyes, and we must take the chance. Tennyson.
3. 3. 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. Land may be improved by draining, marling, and liming. Sir J. Child.
4. 4. To cement. "Who gave his blood to lime the stones together." Shak.