| LIME | • lime n. (Chemistry) Any inorganic material containing calcium, usually calcium oxide (quicklime) or calcium… • lime n. (Poetic) Any gluey or adhesive substance; something which traps or captures someone; sometimes a synonym for birdlime. • lime n. (Theater) A spotlight. |
| CLIME | • clime n. A particular region defined by its weather or climate. • clime n. Climate. • CLIME n. the atmosphere of an area. |
| GLIME | • GLIME v. to glance slyly. |
| SLIME | • slime n. Soft, moist earth or clay, having an adhesive quality; viscous mud; any substance of a dirty nature… • slime n. Any mucilaginous substance; or a mucus-like substance which exudes from the bodies of certain animals… • slime n. Synonym of flubber (“kind of rubbery polymer”). |
| DELIME | • delime v. Synonym of unlime (“remove lime from hides”). • DELIME v. to free from lime. |
| UNLIME | • unlime v. (Transitive) To remove the lime from (hides) as part of the tanning process. • UNLIME v. to free from lime. |
| BESLIME | • beslime v. (Transitive, archaic) To make dirty with something slimy; befoul. • beslime v. (Transitive, archaic) To insult, to say negative things about. • beslime v. (Transitive) To cover or daub with slime; slime. |
| MILLIME | • millime n. A unit of currency equal to one thousandth of a Tunisian dinar. • millime n. (Historical) A unit of currency equal to one thousandth of an Egyptian pound. • MILLIME n. a monetary unit of Tunisia. |
| SUBLIME | • sublime v. (Chemistry, physics, transitive, intransitive) To sublimate. • sublime v. (Transitive) To raise on high. • sublime v. (Transitive) To exalt; to heighten; to improve; to purify. |
| BIRDLIME | • birdlime n. A sticky substance smeared on branches to catch birds. • birdlime n. (Rhyming slang) Time; a jail term, the serving of a prison sentence. • birdlime v. (Transitive) To add birdlime to. |
| BROOKLIME | • brooklime n. Certain plants of genus Veronica, with usually blue flowers in axillary racemes… • BROOKLIME n. a wild flower with small blue flowers. |
| QUICKLIME | • quicklime n. Calcium oxide, which is produced by heating (calcining) limestone and gives slaked lime on treatment with water. • quicklime v. (Transitive) To treat with quicklime. • quick␣lime n. Alternative spelling of quicklime. |