[f. LIME v.1 + -ING1.]
† 1. Gluing or cementing together. In quot. fig.
c. 1050. Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 436/13. Liture, liming.
a. 1225. Ancr. R., 138. Þet … monnes soule … schal beon so ueste iueied to þe flesche, þet nis bute uen & ful eorðe, & þuruh þet ilke limunge luuien hit so swuðe, þet [etc.].
2. The action or process of treating things with lime. a. Whitewashing with lime. (See also WHITE-LIMING.) b. Dressing earth with lime, in cultivation. c. Steeping skins in lime and water.
a. 1552. Elyot, Dict., Albarium opus, pargettyng, white limyng.
1591. Percivall, Sp. Dict., Encaladura, the liming, the plaistering of an house.
1626. Vestry Bks. (Surtees), 181. For lymeinge the windowes about that were glased, and other that neaded lymeinge aboute xij d.
b. 1620. Markham, Farew. Husb., II. ii. (1668), 7. The Liming of your ground will take at least half so much time as the sanding.
1798. Trans. Soc. Arts, XVI. 122. We have never found that a second liming has produced any good effect.
1856. Olmsted, Slave States, 13. Deep plowing and limeing, and the judicious use of manures.
1875. Act 38 & 39 Vict., c. 92 § 5. Claying of land, liming of land, marling of land.
c. 1688. R. Holme, Armoury, III. 86/2. Lyming, piting the skins with Lime and Water.
1778. Projects, in Ann. Reg., 118/1. Steeping the hides for a short time in a mixture of lime and water, which is called liming.
1844. G. Dodd, Textile Manuf., ii. 50. From this heap it [the cloth] is again removed to undergo the process of ‘liming.’
