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adjective

Limy adj.

Smeared with, or consisting of, lime; viscous. "Limy snares."

Containing lime; as, a limy soil.

Resembling lime; having the qualities of lime.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Limy" Quotes from Famous Books

... again, and finally pitch over headlong on the cobblestones. I ran up to him—my father came, other workingmen came up, but he could barely gasp and his month was filled with blood. I helped carry him into the house. He was a mass of limy rags, reeking with all kinds of chemicals. Before we had gotten him into the house, ...

— The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann - Volume I • Gerhart Hauptmann

... of Hesperoherpeton lies in an oblong block of limy shale measuring approximately 100 x 60 mm. After preparation of the entire lower surface, the exposed bones and matrix were embedded in Bioplastic, in a layer thin enough for visibility but giving firm support. Then the specimen was inverted and the matrix removed from the opposite side; ...

— A New Order of Fishlike Amphibia From the Pennsylvanian of Kansas • Theodore H. Eaton

... these slates, sometimes penetrating to a considerable distance, you may get gold, but it is useless attempting to sink through them. If the outcropping strata be a soft calcareous (limy) sandstone or soft felspathic rock, and that be also the true bottom, great care should be exercised or one is apt to sink through the bottom, which may be very loose and decomposed. I have known mistakes made in this way when many feet ...

— Getting Gold • J. C. F. Johnson