These twigs, in time, will come to be limed.
--L'Estrange.
We had limed ourselves With open eyes, and we must
take the chance. --Tennyson.
3. To treat with lime, or oxide or hydrate of calcium; to
manure with lime; as, to lime hides for removing the hair;
to lime sails in order to whiten them.
Land may be improved by draining, marling, and
liming. --Sir J.
Child.
4. To cement. ``Who gave his blood to lime the stones
together.'' --Shak.