Definition of Limings

1. liming [n] - See also: liming

Lexicographical Neighbors of Limings

limicoline bird
limicolous
limier
limiest
limina
liminal
liminal stimulus
liminal trait
liminalities
liminality
liminals
liminary
liminess
liminesses
liming
limings (current term)
liminocentric
liminometer
limit
limit cycle
limit dextrin
limit dextrinase
limit dextrinosis
limit down
limit inferior
limit of resolution
limit point
limit points
limit superior
limit up

Literary usage of Limings

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Essay on Calcareous Manures by Edmund Ruffin (1852)
"There is a general accordance in the practices of the re-limings, ... The British re-limings are required because the first dose was supposed to be ..."

2. Chymistry Applied to Agriculture by R H Mottram, Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal, Humphry Davy, Marc-Antoine Puvis, James Renwick (1845)
"The ancient and repeated limings have, as it seems, furnished to great part of ... The limings of Normandy, the most ancient of France, are kept up in the ..."

3. Modern Agriculture: Or, the Present State of Husbandry in Great Britain by James Donaldson (1796)
"It is probable, that the propriety or impropriety of repeated limings, depends more on ... In Cumberland, Lanark, and fome other counties, repeated limings, ..."

4. Experimental Agriculture: Being the Results of Past, and Suggestions for by James Finlay Weir Johnston (1849)
"Lucerne, for example, is a lime-loving plant, and is said to be benefited by repeated limings. Will an annual small dusting of lime over the young shoots in ..."

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