quicklime (countable and uncountable, plural quicklimes)
Calcium oxide, which is produced by heating (calcining) limestone and gives slaked lime on treatment with water.
• burnt lime, caustic lime, unhydrated lime, anhydrous lime, lime
quicklime (third-person singular simple present quicklimes, present participle quickliming, simple past and past participle quicklimed)
(transitive) To treat with quicklime.
Source: Wiktionary
Quick"lime, n. Etym: [See Quick, a.] (Chem.)
Definition: Calcium oxide; unslacked lime; -- so called because when wet it develops great heat. See 4th Lime, 2.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
27 January 2025
(adjective) capable of being split or cleft or divided in the direction of the grain; “fissile crystals”; “fissile wood”
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