lime

lime is a 4-letter English word with 17 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A thong by which a dog is led; a leash. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 8 · 17 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A thong by which a dog is led; a leash.
2. noun. The linden tree. See Linden.
3. noun. A fruit allied to the lemon, but much smaller; also, the tree which bears it. There are two kinds; Citrus Medica, var. acida which is intensely sour, and the sweet lime (C. Medica, var. Limetta) which is only slightly sour.
4. noun. Birdlime.
5. noun. Oxide of calcium; 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 slacked lime, and is an essential ingredient of cement, plastering, mortar, etc.
6. transitive verb. To smear with a viscous substance, as birdlime.
7. transitive verb. To entangle; to insnare.
8. transitive verb. 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.
9. transitive verb. To cement.
10. noun. the green acidic fruit of any of various lime trees
11. noun. any of various deciduous trees of the genus Tilia with heart-shaped leaves and drooping cymose clusters of yellowish often fragrant flowers; several yield valuable timber

    Synonyms: basswood, linden

12. noun. any of various related trees bearing limes
13. noun. a sticky adhesive that is smeared on small branches to capture small birds

    Synonyms: birdlime

14. noun. a white crystalline oxide used in the production of calcium hydroxide

    Synonyms: calx, quicklime

15. noun. a caustic substance produced by heating limestone
16. verb. cover with lime so as to induce growth

    "lime the lawn"

17. verb. spread birdlime on branches to catch birds

    Synonyms: birdlime

Synonyms

basswood, linden, birdlime, calx, quicklime

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in lime:

emil, mile

Common word forms

limed, limer, limes, liming, limeless

Words from these letters

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