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lime

noun as in plaster

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Think wearing yellow lipstick, lime-green nails, and a SpongeBob SquarePants jumper with no trousers.

Some were injected with chemicals or dosed in lime for better preservation.

At a taco truck in New York I asked how their lime stock was faring.

Maybe all this Sturm und Drang will give birth to a new lime-lite generation of cocktails.

The verjus gives it that hit of sour acid, which is what we generally use lime for in cocktails.

Why not have sought out the pure white lime-rocks of the flat country, or the grey granite of the hills?

For instance, the Limestone Polypody is not happy unless there is a certain amount of lime present in the soil.

But, before they can be used for this purpose, these leaves are coated with lime made from oyster shells and then folded up.

The acid is extracted from the juice of the citron, the lime, and the lemon, fruits grown in Sicily and the West Indies.

Chloride of Lime … bad smell … bad egg … white of egg … fowl … grain … flour … flour and water … milk fluid … milk.

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On this page you'll find 94 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to lime, such as: blue-green, olive, apple, aquamarine, beryl, and chartreuse.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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