ppl. a. [UN-1 8. Cf. Du. ongelijmd, G. ungeleimt.]
1. Not smeared or clogged with bird-lime. In quots. fig.
1622. S. Ward, Christ All in All (1627), 36. Christ, whom hee longed to bee with, and would now with vnlimed and vnentangled wings flye vnto.
a. 1672. Sterry, Freed. Will (1675), 137. It keeps these wings unlimed … by the filth or guilt of fleshly lusts.
2. Not dressed or treated with lime.
1756. F. Home, Exper. Bleaching, 215. This makes limed cloth easily distinguishable from unlimed.
1801. Farmer’s Mag., Nov., 478. As the grain must have lain in the ground for two years, and none was observed in the unlimed part.
