n. Habiliment. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Alkalimeter. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. alimentum, fr. alere to nourish; akin to Goth. alan to grow, Icel. ala to nourish: cf. F. aliment. See Old. ] 1. That which nourishes; food; nutriment; anything which feeds or adds to a substance in natural growth. Hence: The necessaries of life generally: sustenance; means of support. [ 1913 Webster ]

Aliments of their sloth and weakness. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An allowance for maintenance. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To nourish; to support. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To provide for the maintenance of. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Supplying food; having the quality of nourishing; furnishing the materials for natural growth; as, alimental sap. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. So as to serve for nourishment or food; nourishing quality. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being alimentary; nourishing quality. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. alimentarius, fr. alimentum: cf. F. alimentaire. ] Pertaining to aliment or food, or to the function of nutrition; nutritious; alimental; as, alimentary substances. [ 1913 Webster ]

Alimentary canal, the entire channel, extending from the mouth to the anus, by which aliments are conveyed through the body, and the useless parts ejected. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. alimentation, LL. alimentatio. ] 1. The act or process of affording nutriment; the function of the alimentary canal. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. State or mode of being nourished. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The instinct or faculty of appetite for food. [ Chiefly in Phrenol. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Alkali + -meter. cf. F. alcalimètre. ] An instrument to ascertain the strength of alkalies, or the quantity of alkali in a mixture. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Of or pertaining to alkalimetry. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. alcalimètrie. ] (Chem.) The art or process of ascertaining the strength of alkalies, or the quantity present in alkaline mixtures. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Application. [ Obs. ] Marston [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Belimed ] To besmear or insnare with birdlime. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To daub with slime; to soil. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A woman's ornament; habiliment. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Bird + lime viscous substance. ] An extremely adhesive viscid substance, usually made of the middle bark of the holly, by boiling, fermenting, and cleansing it. When a twig is smeared with this substance it will hold small birds which may light upon it. Hence: Anything which insnares. [ 1913 Webster ]

Not birdlime or Idean pitch produce
A more tenacious mass of clammy juice. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Birdlime is also made from mistletoe, elder, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To smear with birdlime; to catch with birdlime; to insnare. [ 1913 Webster ]

When the heart is thus birdlimed, then it cleaves to everything it meets with. Coodwin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A plant (Veronica Beccabunga), with flowers, usually blue, in axillary racemes. The American species is Veronica Americana. [ Formerly written broklempe or broklympe. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

(Geol.) A series of limestone strata found in Ohio and farther west, presenting bluffs along the rivers and valleys, formerly supposed to be of one formation, but now known to be partly Silurian and partly Devonian. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. clima. See Climate. ] A climate; a tract or region of the earth. See Climate. [ 1913 Webster ]

Turn we to sutvey,
Where rougher climes a nobler race display. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. compliment. It complimento, fr. comlire to compliment, finish, suit, fr. L. complere to fill up. See Complete, and cf. Complement. ] An expression, by word or act, of approbation, regard, confidence, civility, or admiration; a flattering speech or attention; a ceremonious greeting; as, to send one's compliments to a friend. [ 1913 Webster ]

Tedious waste of time, to sit and hear
So many hollow compliments and lies. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Many a compliment politely penned. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

To make one a compliment, to show one respect; to praise one in a flattering way. Locke. --
To make one's compliments to, to offer formal courtesies to. --
To stand on compliment, to treat with ceremony.

Syn. -- See Adulation. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To praise, flatter, or gratify, by expressions of approbation, respect, or congratulation; to make or pay a compliment to. [ 1913 Webster ]

Monarchs should their inward soul disguise; . . .
Should compliment their foes and shun their friends. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To praise; flatter; adulate; commend. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To pass compliments; to use conventional expressions of respect. [ 1913 Webster ]

I make the interlocutors, upon occasion, compliment with one another. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Complimentary. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Languages . . . grow rich and abundant in complimental phrases, and such froth. Sir H. Wotton.

-- Com`pli*men"tal*ly, adv. [Obs.] Boyle. -- Com`pli*men"tal*ness, n. [ Obs. ] Hammond. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Expressive of regard or praise; of the nature of, or containing, a compliment; as, a complimentary remark; a complimentary ticket. “Complimentary addresses.” Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Complimentary. [ R. ] Boswell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who compliments; one given to complimenting; a flatterer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Ductile + -meter. ] An instrument for accurately determining the ductility of metals. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Globule + -meter. ] (Physiol.) An instrument for measuring the number of red blood corpuscles in the blood. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The method depends on the differences of tint obtained by mixing a sample of the blood with sodium carbonate solution. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. habillement, fr. habiller to dress, clothe, orig., to make fit, make ready, fr. habile apt, skillful, L. habilis. See Habile. ] 1. A garment; an article of clothing. Camden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. pl. Dress, in general. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Clothed. Taylor (1630). [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Affording no aliment or nourishment. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Jollity. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Leam a string. ] A thong by which a dog is led; a leash. Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Formerly line, for earlier lind. See Linden. ] (Bot.) The linden tree. See Linden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. lime; of Persian origin. See Lemon. ] 1. (Bot.) The fruit of the Citrus aurantifolia, allied to the lemon, but greener in color; also, the tree which bears it. The term lime was formerly also applied to variants of the closely related citron, of which there are two varieties, Citrus Medica, var. acida which is intensely sour, and the
sweet lime (Citrus Medica, var. Limetta) which is only slightly sour. See citron. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

2. The color of the lime{ 1 }, a yellowish-green. [ PJC ]

n. [ AS. līm; akin to D. lijm, G. leim, OHG. līm, Icel. līm, Sw. lim, Dan. liim, L. limus mud, linere to smear, and E. loam. √126. Cf. Loam, Liniment. ] 1. Birdlime. [ 1913 Webster ]

Like the lime
That foolish birds are caught with. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Chem.) Oxide of calcium, CaO; the white or gray, caustic substance, usually called quicklime, obtained by calcining limestone or shells, the heat driving off carbon dioxide and leaving lime. It develops great heat when treated with water, forming slaked lime, and is an essential ingredient of cement, plastering, mortar, etc. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

☞ Lime is the principal constituent of limestone, marble, chalk, bones, shells, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Caustic lime, Calcium hydroxide or slaked lime; also, in a less technical sense, calcium oxide or quicklime. --
Lime burner, one who burns limestone, shells, etc., to make lime. --
Lime pit, a limestone quarry. --
Lime rod,
Lime twig, a twig smeared with birdlime; hence, that which catches; a snare. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Limed p. pr. & vb. n. Liming. ] [ Cf. AS. gelīman to glue or join together. See Lime a viscous substance. ] 1. To smear with a viscous substance, as birdlime. [ 1913 Webster ]

These twigs, in time, will come to be limed. L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To entangle; to insnare. [ 1913 Webster ]

We had limed ourselves
With open eyes, and we must take the chance. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

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; to lime the lawn to decrease acidity of the soil. [ 1913 Webster ]

Land may be improved by draining, marling, and liming. Sir J. Child. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To cement. “Who gave his blood to lime the stones together.” Shak.

a. having a yellowish-green color like that of the lime (the fruit). [ PJC ]

n. A sweetened beverage of lime juice and water. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Lime a leash + hound. ] A dog used in hunting the wild boar; a leamer. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A kiln or furnace in which limestone or shells are burned and reduced to lime. [ 1913 Webster ]

An intense light produced by heating lime. See Calcium light under Calcium. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Theat.) That part of the stage upon which the limelight is cast, usually where the most important action is progressing or where the leading player or players are placed and upon which the attention of the spectators is therefore concentrated. Hence, a conspicuous position before the public; the center of public attention; -- used mostly in the phrase in the limelight; as, politicians who are never happy except in the limelight. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. (Psychol.) a threshhold, especially the point where a psychological or physiological effect begins to occur. [ PJC ]

a. Of or pertaining to Lima, or to the inhabitants of Lima, in Peru. -- n. A native or inhabitant of Lima. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A genus comprising mainly dark northern butterflies with white wing bars.
Syn. -- genus Limenitis. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A limehound; a limmer. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]