caustic lime

American  

noun

1. lime.

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Etymology

Origin of caustic lime

First recorded in 1805–15

Example Sentences

And if your cellar or house has a dirt floor, a heavy sprinkling of very caustic lime water all over it will do good in ridding it of vermin.

From Mushrooms: how to grow them a practical treatise on mushroom culture for profit and pleasure by Falconer, William

When limestone or mild lime is submitted to a great heat, such as is practically done on a large scale in lime-kilns, it is converted into caustic lime or lime proper.

From Manures and the principles of manuring by Aikman, Charles Morton

What remains in the resin may be separated by boiling it with caustic lime, and precipitating the acid from the resulting benzoate of lime with hydrochloric acid.

From The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants by Piesse, George William Septimus

Wherever stable manure and clover sods were not freely used, the heavy application of caustic lime was followed ultimately by decline in productive power.

From Right Use of Lime in Soil Improvement by Agee, Alva

It was an analysis of some caustic lime from Tuscany, which had been sent to Davy by the Duchess of Montrose.

From Faraday as a Discoverer by Tyndall, John