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Affording no aliment or nourishment. [Obs.] Bacon.

Jollity. [Obs.] Spenser.

The millionth part of a meter.

A lineal measure in the metric system, containing the thousandth part of a meter; equal to .03937 of an inch. See 3d Meter.

The acid, olive-shaped, drupaceous fruit of a species of tupelo (Nyssa capitata) which grows in swamps in Georgia and Florida.

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.

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

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

Lifted up; high in place; exalted aloft; uplifted; lofty. Sublime on these a tower of steel is reared. Dryden.

Having been subjected to the process of sublimation; hence, also, purified. "Sublimed mercurie." Chaucer.

In a sublime manner.

The quality or state of being sublime; sublimity.

The act of overfeeding, or making one take food in excess of the natural appetite for it.

Unruliness. [Obs.] "Breaking forth with rude unruliment." Spenser.

Hydraulic lime.

Whitewashed or plastered with lime. "White-limed walls." Shak.