white lime, white-lime, n. Now rare or Obs.
[lime n.1]
Lime mixed with water as a coating for walls, etc.; whitewash. Also attrib.
| 1528 Paynell Salerne's Regim. c j b, A playster made of Auripigmentum, Brymstoone, whyte lyme, and Sope, myngled to gether. a 1658 Cleveland Plat. Love iv. Wks. (1687) 212 Pictures might court each other and exchange Their white-lime Looks. 1824 Southey Sir T. More I. 173 The old cottages..Substantially built of the native stone..dirtied with no white-lime. |
So
ˈwhite-lime v. Obs. or
dial.,
trans. to coat or cover with white lime; to whitewash; hence
white-limed (
-laɪmd)
ppl. a.,
white-liming vbl. n.; also
white-limer, one who white-limes, a whitewasher.
| 13.. Life of Jesus (Horstm.) 422 Þe roues þat beoth with⁓oute *Iȝwitlimede and iplanede faire,..And withInne fulle of caroyne. 1377 Langl. P. Pl. B. xv. 111 Ypocrysie..is lykned..to a wal þat were whitlymed and were foule wyth⁓inne. 1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvi. xxiv. (Bodl. MS.), Suche medleynge is..nedeful..to pargette and whitelyme walles. 1556 Chron. Grey Friars (Camden) 54 Alle churches new whytte-lymed, with the commandmenttes wryttyne on the walles. 1583 Golding Calvin on Deut. xxvii. 2 The Iewes are commanded, To gather great stones, & to white⁓lime them ouer. 1602 Balliol Coll. Oxf. Acc. (MS.) Item for lyme, and the laborers woork, to whytlym the Hall, xvi{supd}. 1634 Brereton Trav. (Chetham Soc.) 13 The great church..most daintily..white-limed. |
| 1588 Shakes. Tit. A. iv. ii. 98 Ye..shallow harted Boyes, Ye *white-limb'd [sic] walls. 1624 Donne Serm., Matt. iii. 17 (1640) 426 If we be not onely Dealbati Christiani, (as S. Augustine speaks) White-lim'd Christians, Christians on the out-side. 1655 Fuller Ch. Hist. i. i. §13 As white-limed houses exceed those which are only rough-cast. |
| 1611 Cotgr., Pinceau,..a *Whitelimers Brush. 1622 R. Hawkins Voy. S. Sea (1847) 121 Hayre, such as the whitelymers use. |
| c 1440 Promp. Parv. 525/2 *Whytlymynge, calcificacio. 1547–8 in Swayne Churchw. Acc. Sarum (1896) 275 To Lytchefeelde for whitelymynge of the same. 1611 Cotgr., Blanche,..whiting or whiteliming. |