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The capital city of Peru, in South America. Lima bean. (Bot.)

Pertaining to, or like, Limax, or the slugs.

A genus of small spiral pteropods, common in the Arctic and Antarctic seas. It contributes to the food of the right whales.

A curve of the fourth degree, invented by Pascal. Its polar equation is r = a cos + b.

Filings of metal. [Obs.] "An ounce . . . of silver lymaille." Chaucer.

The deposit of slime at the mouth of a river; slime.

The act of filing or polishing.

The act of filing.

A genus of airbreathing mollusks, including the common garden slugs. They have a small rudimentary shell. The breathing pore is on the right side of the neck. Several species are troublesome in gardens. See Slug.

Capable of being acclimated.

Acclimatization.

To habituate to a climate not native; to acclimatize. J. H. Newman.

Acclimation. [R.]

The process of becoming, or the state of being, acclimated, or habituated to a new climate; acclimatization.

Capable of being acclimatized.

The act of acclimatizing; the process of inuring to a new climate, or the state of being so inured. Darwin.

To inure or habituate to a climate different from that which is natural; to adapt to the peculiarities of a foreign or strange climate; said of man, the inferior animals, or plants.

The act of acclimating, or the state of being acclimated. [R.] Caldwell.

the ideas fall, or become less important and striking, at the close; -- the opposite of climax. It produces a ridiculous effect. Example: Next comes Dalhousie, the great god of war, Lieutenant-colonel to the Earl ANTICLINAL An`ti*cli"nal, a. Etym: [Pref. anti- + Gr.

See Climacteric, n.