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Definition of Limed
1. lime [v] - See also: lime
Lexicographical Neighbors of Limed
Literary usage of Limed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1908)
"... limed Twigs to catch Young Birds,' 1816 ; ' Rural Scenes ; ' ' City Scenes ¡ ' '
Hymns for Infant Schools ; ' ' Original Anniversary Hymns for Sunday ..."
2. The Journal of the Society of Chemical Industry by Society of Chemical Industry (1884)
"As may be learned from the specification, "limed coal" is made by taking quicklime,
... The products arising when "limed coal is submitted to destructive ..."
3. Experimental Agriculture: Being the Results of Past, and Suggestions for by James Finlay Weir Johnston (1849)
"Suggestions for experiments on over-limed land. Land to which lime has been
applied too frequently, or in too large doses, is not only liable to exhaustion, ..."
4. Father and Son: Biographical Recollections by Edmund Gosse (1907)
"... irritating to his hapless correspondent, who was now "snared" indeed, limed
by the pen like a bird by the feet, and could not by any means escape. ..."
5. Timehri: The Journal of the Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society of by Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society of British Guiana (1897)
"Manures on land not limed gave an average yield of 28-8 tons, whilst on limed
land the result was 3o-1 tons, an increase of 1-3 tons per acre per annum due ..."
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