Obs. [Of obscure origin; cf. the synonymous LINE v.3] trans. To impregnate (a bitch). Also pass. and intr., to copulate with, to be coupled to.
1555. W. Watreman, Fardle Facions, App. 317. Yf anye manne require eyther thy dogge for the folde, or for the chace to lime his bitche.
1579–80. North, Plutarch, Lycurgus (1595), 54. They caused their bitches … to bee limed … with fayrest dogges.
1607. Topsell, Four-f. Beasts (1658), 370. A Mastive Dog was limed to a she Wolf.
1674. N. Fairfax, Bulk & Selv., 130. Why earthworms are limed so much to the headward.
1682. Roxb. Ballads, IV. 281/71. But France is for thy Lust too kind a Clime, In Africk with some Wolf or Tyger lime.
