L I M 
L I M 
To fmear with lime.—Thofe twigs in time will come to 
be lined, and then you are all loft if you do but touch 
them. L'EJlrange. 
Myfelf have lim'd a bufh for her, 
And plac’d a quire of Inch enticing birds, 
That Ihe will light to liften to their lays. Shakefpcare. 
To cement. Out ofufe: 
I will not ruinate my father’s boufe, 
Who gave his blood to lime the Hones together. 
And let up Lancalter. Shakejpeare's Henry VI. 
To manure ground with lime.—All forts of peafe loved 
limed or marled land. Mortimer. 
LIME (Brook). See Veronica. , 
LIME (Quick). Lime in it« molt powerful or cauftic 
Hate, before it has been rendered mild by the abforption 
of carbonic acid gas, or fixed air, from either the atmof- 
phere or the foil. 
LI'ME-BURNING, f. The procefs of converting lirne- 
ftone, chalk, marble, ihells, and other calcareous fub- 
ftances, into lime, by means of heat, in kilns properly con- 
ftruded for the purpofe. See Lime-kiln. 
LI'ME-GALLS, f. In natural hiltory, a fort of vege¬ 
table protuberances formed on th.e edges of the leaves of 
the lime-tree in fpring-time; they are very common in 
the plantations of limes, and are irregularly (haped, but 
ufually oblong and rugged, and of a reddilh colour. As 
thefe are very plentiful, M. Reaumur was of opinion, that 
they might be of fervice in the dying-trade ; he made 
trial by rubbing them on foine parts of his linen, and 
found that they gave a very beautiful red colour, which 
did not come out in the firft walkings afterwards. It is 
extremely probable, that there wants only inquiry to prove 
that we have many valuable productions of this kind, 
which, though difregarded at prefent, might prove of great 
ufe in the feveral mechanical arts, as well as in medicine. 
Thefe galls of the lime-leaves are formed by a worm, 
which inhabits them during its term of life, beipg found 
in them of all fizes, from the molt minute to that of the 
full growth, which is about half an inch in length; but 
when its period of life, as a worm, draws near, it deferts 
this habitation, and goes elfewhere to pafs into its chry- 
falis Hate. See Galls, vol. viii. and Cynips, vol. v. 
LI'ME-HOUND,/! A blood-hound.—All the lime, hounds 
in the city fliould have drawn after you by the feent. 
B. Jonforis Barthol. Fair. 
But Talus, that could like a lime-hound wind her. 
And all things fecrete wifely could bewray. 
At length found out, w here as file hidden lay. Fairy Queen. 
I have feen him fmell out 
Her footing like a lime-hound, and know it 
P’rom all the reft of her train. Majingefs Bajhful Lover. 
LI'ME-JUICE,yi The juice of the lime. The follow¬ 
ing method of prelerving lime-juice and limes, in Incjia, 
is copied from the Calcutta Gazettes of Sept. 1805. “The 
limes come in between the latter end of October and the 
middle of November; and, as they arrive fnccellively, the 
juice is to be fqueezed into gomlehs, holding about one 
maund and a half, (a maund is ten gallons,) and in the 
evening poured into large calks or pipes, from which rum, 
brandy, or Madeira, has been lately taken out. But, be¬ 
fore the juice be poured out of the gomlehs into thefe 
calks in which it is to be colleded for purification, a red- 
hot iron bar, about eight inches long, four inches broad, 
and two inches thick, having an iron chain fixed to it by 
a hook, mult be twice quenched in it, turning it equally 
round on -all fides. When the calk in which the juice is 
colleded in this manner is nearly full, put into it for every 
maund, or ten gallons, of juice, half a gallon of Bengal 
rum full-proof; and it will then fettle and clarify lt- 
felf by the beginning of December; when it may be 
drawn off for ule, either into fmall calks or bottles. 
“The limes are in their highelt perfection in the month 
of December; and five hundred, being put into a well- 
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dried fifteen gallon keg, will fill about one-half. The 
remaining part is then to be completely filled up with 
lime-juice that has fettled and clarified itfelfin the calk 
as now deferibed. The keg, being thus filled with lime- 
juice, is to be flightly bunged up the firft day, but the 
next day is to be completely fecured againft the admif- 
lion of air. In about one month the kegs will be found to 
want about two bottles of juice, which has been lbaked 
up. This deficiency is to be fupplied by means of a fmall 
tapering pointed funnel introduced by boring a hole with 
a gimlet an inch from the bung; which being doled again, 
the keg is then ready for fea. But, whether at fea or on 
land, it will be.neceffary to fill it up again in the fame 
way. Thefe kegs ntuft have eight ftrong new hoops; and, 
being prepared in this manner, the limes are warranted to 
keep twelve month9frand longer in high prefervation. 
LFME-KILN, / Kiln where ftones are burnt to lime. 
—The counter-gate is as hateful to me as the reek of a 
lime-kiln. Shakejp. Merry Wives of Windfor, 
Lime-kilns are built of different forms or (hapes, ac¬ 
cording to the manner in which they are to be wrought, 
and the kinds of fuel which are to be employed. It lias 
been remarked, in a work on landed property, that, in 
places where materials are dear, from their being fetched 
from a diftance, and where the fuel is coals, and alfo ex- 
penfive, the form of a kiln is moftly that of an inverted 
cone, a form which has its inconveniences; but, in dif- 
trids where the art of burning lime is pradifed with fu- 
perior attention and corrednefs, the form has of lateyeart 
been gradually changing from conical to elliptical. But, 
in his opinion, “the beft form of a lime-furnace, in the 
eftablifhed pradice of the prefent day, is that of the egg 
placed upon its narrower end, having part of its broader 
end ftruck off, and its fides fomewhat comprefled, efpe- 
cially towards'the lower extremity; the ground-plot or 
bottom of the kiln being nearly an oval, with an eye, or 
draft-hole, toward each end of it.” It is fuppoled that 
“ two advantages are gained, by this form over that of the 
cone. By the upper part of the kiln being contraded, the 
heat does not fly off fo freely as it does out of a fpread- 
ing cone. On the contrary, it thereby receives a degree 
of reverberation which adds to its intenfity.” But the 
other, and ftill more valuable, effed is this: “When the 
cooled lime is drawn out at the bottom of the furnace, the 
ignited mafs, in the upper parts of it, fettles down, freely 
and evenly, into the central parts of the kiln; whereas, 
in a conical furnace, the regular contradion of its width, 
in the upper as well as the lower parts of it, prevents the 
burning materials from fettling uniformly, and levelling 
downward. They hang upon the fides of the kiln, and 
either form a dome at the bottom of the burning mafs, 
with a void fpace beneath it, thereby endangering the 
ftrudure, if not the workmen employed ; or, breaking 
down in the centre, form a funnel, down which the un¬ 
der burnt ftones find their way to the draft-holes. The 
contradion of the lower part of the kiln has not the fame 
effed ; for, after the fuel is exhaufted, the adhefion ceafes, 
the mafs loofens, and, as the lime cools, the lefs room it 
requires. It therefore runs down freely to the draft-holes, 
notwithftanding the quick contraction of the bottom of 
the kiln or furnace.” 
The moll ancient kind of lime-kiln is probably that 
which is made by excavating the earth in the form of a 
cone, of fuch a lize as may be neceffary; and afterwards 
building tip the fides, or not, according to the circum- 
itances of the cafe; the materials being then laid in, in al¬ 
ternate layers of fuel and ftone, properly broken, until 
the whole is filled up. The top is thep covered with fods, 
in order that the heat may be prevented from efcaping; 
and the fire lighted at the bottom, and the whole of the 
contents burnt, in-a greater or lefs-fpace of time, in pro¬ 
portion to the nature of the ftone, and the quantity that is 
contained in the kiln. From the circumftance of the top 
parts of thofe kilns, in fome diftrids, being covered over, 
and the fides iometimes built up with fods, they are term- 
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