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Calcium oxide; unslacked lime; -- so called because when wet it develops great heat. See 4th Lime, 2.

To sublime again. Newton. -- Re*sub`li*ma"tion, n.

Lime in the lump after it is burned; quicklime. [Eng.]

An instrument for measuring the amount of salt present in any given solution. [Written also salometer.]

The art or process of measuring the amount of salt in a substance.

Same as Fibrolite.

Weak; slight; unsubstantial; poor; as, a slim argument. "That was a slim excuse." Barrow.

clay, having an adhesive quality; viscous mud. As it [Nilus] ebbs, the seedsman Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain. Shak.

In a slimy manner.

The quality or state of being slimy.

In a state of slimness; in a slim manner; slenderly.

The quality or state of being slim.

Flimsy; frail. [Colloq. U.S.]

Of or pertaining to slime; resembling slime; of the nature of slime; viscous; glutinous; also, covered or daubed with slime; yielding, or abounding in, slime. Slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea. Coleridge.

he act of making firm; firm support; establishment. [R.] Jer. taylor. They serve for stabiliment, propagation, and shade. Derham.

Capable of being sublimed or sublimated. -- Sub*lim"a*ble*ness, n. Boyle.

t into the state of vapor, which, on cooling, returns again to the solid state; as, to sublimate sulphur or camphor.

Refined by, or as by, sublimation; exalted; purified. [Words] whose weight best suits a sublimated strain. Dryden.

The act or process of subliming, or the state or result of being sublimed.

Used for sublimation; as, sublimatory vessels. Boyle.