Lime"hound` (lm"hound`), n. [Lime a leash + hound.] A dog used in
hunting the wild boar; a leamer. Spenser.
Lime"kiln` (lm"kln`), n. A kiln or furnace in which limestone or shells
are burned and reduced to lime.
Li*men"e*an (l*mn"*an), a. Of or pertaining to Lima, or to the
inhabitants of Lima, in Peru. -- n. A native or inhabitant of Lima.
Lim"er (lm"r), n. A limehound; a limmer. Chaucer.
Lime"stone` (lm"stn`), n. A rock consisting chiefly of calcium
carbonate or carbonate of lime. It sometimes contains also magnesium
carbonate, and is then called magnesian or dolomitic limestone.
Crystalline limestone is called marble.
Lime twig. See under 4th Lime.
Lime"-twigged` (-twgd`), a. Beset with snares; insnared, as with
birdlime. L. Addison.
Lime"wa`ter (-w`tr), n. Water impregnated with lime; esp., an
artificial solution of lime for medicinal purposes.
||Li*mic"o*læ (l*mk"*l), n. pl. [L. limicola a dweller in the mud;
||limus mud + colere to dwell.] (Zoöl.) A group of shore birds,
||embracing the plovers, sandpipers, snipe, curlew, etc.; the Grallæ.
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Li*mic"o*line (-ln), a. (Zoöl.) Shore-inhabiting; of or pertaining to
the Limicolæ.
Lim"i*ness (lm"*ns), n. The state or quality of being limy.
Lim"it (lm"t), n. [From L. limes, limitis: cf. F. limite; or from E.
limit, v. See Limit, v. t.] 1. That which terminates, circumscribes,
restrains, or confines; the bound, border, or edge; the utmost extent;
as, the limit of a walk, of a town, of a country; the limits of human
knowledge or endeavor.
As eager of the chase, the maid Beyond the forest's verdant limits
strayed.
Pope.