verb
definition
To treat with calcium hydroxide or calcium oxide (lime).
definition
To smear with birdlime.
definition
To apply limewash.
verb
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To hang out/socialize in an informal, relaxed environment, especially with friends, for example at a party or on the beach.
noun
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An application of lime (calcium hydroxide or calcium oxide).
example
The land required frequent limings.
Examples of liming in a Sentence
This is easily done in liming or measuring tanks of known capacity, into which the juice is run from the mill.
Liming tends to produce earlier crops and destroys the fungus which causes finger-and-toe or club-root among turnips and cabbages.
When the whole ground has been thus treated, a moderate liming will, in general, be useful, especially on heavy clay soils.
These are unfitted for garden purposes until improved by draining, liming, trenching and the addition of porous materials, such as ashes, burnt ballast or sand, but when thoroughly improved they are very fertile and less liable to become exhausted than most other soils.
The process of liming, which originated at the time when the Dutch held a monopoly of the trade, was with the view of preventing the germination of the seeds, which were formerly immersed for three months in milk of lime for this purpose, and a preference is still manifested in some countries for nutmegs so prepared.
The method of liming the tiles (chaulage) consists in dipping them into a liquid mixture of lime and water.
Among the subjects deserving notice may be mentioned the practice of steeping and liming seed corn as a preventive of smut; changing every year the species of grain, and bringing seed corn from a distance; ploughing down green crops as manure; and feeding horses with broken oats and chaff.
The first half of the 17th century was a period of agricultural activity, partly due, no doubt, to the increase of enclosed farms. Marling and liming are again practised, new agricultural implements and manures introduced, and the new crops more widely used.
Other essential conditions of success will commonly include the liberal application of potash and phosphatic manures, and sometimes chalking or liming for the leguminous crop. As to how long the leguminous crop should occupy the land, the extent to which it should be consumed on the land, or the manure from its consumption be returned, and under what conditions the whole or part of it should be ploughed in - these are points which must be decided as they arise in practice.
When recommendations are made about liming land it is necessary to indicate more precisely than is usually done which of the three classes of material named above - chalk, quicklime or slaked lime - is intended.
Weeds, therefore, which need sour conditions for development are checked by liming and the better grasses and clovers are encouraged.