[f. LIME sb.1] The intense white light produced by heating a piece of lime in an oxyhydrogen flame. Called also DRUMMOND LIGHT.
1826. Drummond, in Phil. Trans., CXVI. 336. Applied to a revolving light, where four sides are illuminated, each with four reflectors, one reflector, with the lime light, might be substituted on each side.
1860. Tyndall, Glac., I. vi. 46. The naked eye can detect no difference in brightness between the electric light and the lime light.
1882. F. Harrison, Choice Bks. (1886), 433. When Shakespeare played Hamlet and Macbeth, he had neither limelight, footlights, scenery, costumes, nor stage machinery.
