lime

1 :  to smear with a sticky substance (such as birdlime)

2 :  to entangle with or as if with birdlime

3 :  to treat or cover with lime lime the lawn in the spring

:  of, relating to, or containing lime or limestone

:  a linden tree; especially :  linden 1a

1 :  the small globose yellowish green fruit of a widely cultivated spiny tropical Asian citrus tree (Citrus aurantifolia) with a usually acid juicy pulp used as a flavoring agent and as a source of vitamin C

2 :  a tree that bears limes

:  a small greenish yellow fruit that is related to the lemon and orange

:  a white substance made by heating limestone or shells and used in making plaster and cement and in farming

:  to treat or cover with a white substance made from limestone or shells We spent the afternoon liming the garden.

:  a caustic powdery white highly infusible solid that consists of calcium oxide often together with magnesia—called also quicklime; see limewater

:  the small globose yellowish green fruit of a spiny tropical tree of the genus Citrus (C. aurantifolia) that has a usually acid juicy pulp used as a flavoring agent and as a source of vitamin C; also :  a tree that bears limes