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Lim′ing.


1. (Leather-manufacture.) The operation of steeping hides in lime-water or milk of lime, to remove the hair. The action of the lime is to dissolve the hair sheath and form a soap with the fat of the hide. Unhairing.

2. Slaked lime thinned with water, used in bleaching. [1321]

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