liming

Verb (1)

lime (third-person singular simple present limes, present participle liming, simple past and past participle limed)

1. (transitive) To treat with calcium hydroxide or calcium oxide (lime).
   • If I were you, I'd lime.1917, Rudyard Kipling, The Land
2. (transitive) To smear with birdlime.
   1. (rare, transitive) To ensnare, catch, entrap.
      • URSULA. She's lim'd, I warrant you: we have caught her, madam.
        HERO. If it prove so, then loving goes by haps:
        Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
3. (transitive) To apply limewash.

Verb (2)

lime (third-person singular simple present limes, present participle liming, simple past and past participle limed)

1. (Barbados, Caribbean, Trinidad-and-Tobago, informal) To hang out or socialize in an informal, relaxed environment, especially with friends, for example at a party or on the beach.

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