a. [f. LIME sb.1 + -Y.]
1. Besmeared with birdlime.
1552. Huloet, Lymye or clammye, viscidus.
1591. Spenser, Muiopot., 429. He … wrapt his winges twaine In lymie snares the subtill loupes among. [In mod. Dicts.]
2. Consisting of or containing lime.
1676. Phil. Trans., XI. 615. Some bolar, some sandy, some talky, some limy.
1681. Grew, Musæum, 7. A human Skull cover’d all over with the Skin. Having been buried … in some Limy … soil, by which it was tann’d.
1813. J. C. Eustace, Italy, I. xi. (1815), 387. Its limy ruins spread over the surface, burn the soil and check its natural fertility.
1876. Page, Adv. Text-bk. Geol., iii. 66. Their flinty and limy cases … being aggregated in countless myriads.
1893. Black & White, 15 April, 464/2. Limy dust … fills the eyes.
3. Of the nature of lime, resembling lime.
1775. A. Burnaby, Trav., 34. There is a peculiarity in the water at Winchester, owing … to the soil’s being of a limy quality.
