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lime-twigged

lime-twigged adjective: beset with snares.

Adjective

lime-twigged (comparative more lime-twigged, superlative most lime-twigged)

  1. Beset with snares.
  2. Ensnared, as with birdlime.
    • have their Conſultations lime-twigg'd with Quirks and Sophiſms of Philoſmophical Perſmons1679, Lancelot Addison, The Life and Death of Mahumed

Forms of lime-twigged

comparativemore lime-twigged
superlativemost lime-twigged

Origin of lime-twigged

From lime-twig + -ed.

Questions about lime-twigged

What does lime-twigged mean?
Lime-twigged means beset with snares.
What part of speech is lime-twigged?
Lime-twigged is an adjective.

Words near lime-twigged in the dictionary

  1. lime-stone
  2. lime-stones
  3. lime-tree
  4. lime-trees
  5. lime-twig
  6. lime-twigged
  7. lime-twigs
  8. limeaceous
  9. limeade
  10. limeades
  11. Limean

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