The flocks cannot hold water back, and hence limed clay allows water to pass through.
The limedclay breaks easily and works quite differently from the pure clay.
If we look at the limed clay in our funnel experiment we shall see that the same change has gone on there; the clay has become rather loose and fluffy, and can therefore no longer hold water back.
Not a chestnut tree nor hazel within the garth but was limed and netted for the caging of this bird.
Here is the nightingale, all limed and taken, who made vigil of your sleeping hours.
There was but little difference perceived in the wheat, except from the manure, which was the best--the field having been limed for the preceding corn crop, 80 bushels to the acre.
Downing in the same county showed as great a contrast with land both limed and manured; while directly alongside of this luxuriant growth, the land was as destitute of vegetation as a brick pavement.
I accordingly limed the land soon after the wheat came up, and in March I applied silicate of soda, sulphate of magnesia, gypsum, common salt, and nitrate of soda.
With respect to the lime used, it may be as well to state that the field had not been limed for many years, and although in a limestone district, showed a deficiency of lime on analysis.
Examine the nozzle of the blower now and then to see that it does not become limed up, or turned so as to direct the steam to one side of the stack, where its force would be wasted.
Be sure the exhaust nozzle does not get limed up, and be sure the pipe where the water enters the boiler from the heater is not limed up, or you may split a heater pipe or knock out a check valve.
Close the cock or valve next the boiler, and examine the boiler check valve; notice whether the pipe is getting limed up.
He limed the soil, and thought the effects were beneficial.
The land is limed only at long intervals, as daffodils like a soil rather on the acid side.
All the tannins and many associated substances darken rapidly with oxidation when in alkaline solution, so that to place the fully limed hide in a tan liquor would give a dark-coloured leather.
The tannage of sealskins depends upon the size of the skins, the purpose for which they are intended, and whether they have been split or not in the limed state.
The limed pelts are first bated lightly at about 80 deg.
They are limed mellow for a fortnight, unhaired, fleshed, and then limedagain for another week in sharp limes.
Skivers are split in the limed state and sometimes immediately degreased.
In the manufacture of pickers from limed pelt there is some superfluous material, and this is cut into shavings and dried.
The hides are limed in 6-7 days with the help of sulphide, and "bated" by washing in warm water and then in cold to which hydrochloric acid is gradually added, finishing off again in tepid water.
Shearlings are sometimeslimed 9-14 days and unwoolled without sweating or painting.
The sheep pelts are split in the limed state, and the fleshes are given another sharp liming which may last up to a fortnight.
Many manufacturers avoid this treatment altogether, therefore, and the wet limed hair is sold direct to the fertilizer factory.
The hides are thoroughly limed in mellow limes, and after the beam work are delimed by drenching, scudded, and sometimes fleshed again, and then coloured off in tan liquor.
The hides are limed generally by the three-pit system, giving about three days in each pit.
Hides for harness leather are limed in various ways, of which the following are types.
The goods are soaked and limed "mellow to fresh" by changing the liquors by means of pumps, air ejectors, etc.
Limed and caught as he is, he's one that may give her some trouble yet.
If I ever saw a man who was so limed that he couldn't help himself, it's that poor creature of a Marchese!
The result is much the same to the insect, whether captured in the trap of Dionaea or stuck fast to the limed bristles of Drosera.
That flies stick fast to its leaves, being limed by the tenacious seeming dew-drops which stud its upper face and margins, had long been noticed in Europe and in this country.
Fastening the bird in the crotch of some tree, he adjusts the limed twigs on an sides, even covering the neighboring branches with the gummy substance.
The limed twigs may be either set in trees or placed on poles and stuck in the ground.
If any of our readers chance to become possessed of an owl, they may look forward to grand success with their limed twigs.
They are readily caught by the assistance of a decoy and a few limed twigs; numbers are thus captured, as the poor little prisoners are often followed by others of their kind who will not desert them in their affliction.
They are easily obtained by the help of nets or limed twigs, but are so wary that it is difficult to bring them down with a gun.
When it is found impossible to climb the trees on which they breed, these are cut down, and nets and limed twigs placed around to catch the young.
The birdcatchers are aware that it is a frequented resort, and on Sunday mornings four or five of them used to be seen in the course of a mile, each with a call bird in a partly darkened cage, a stuffed dummy, and limed twigs.
All the birdcatchers in London with traps and nets and limed twigs could never make the slightest appreciable difference to such flocks.
It is frequently taken, too, in the nets spread for Larks, or inveigled into the snare of the fowler who pursues his craft with limed twigs and the imitated cry of the Owl.
But on attempting to try them I found them limed up solid.
One is, if you depend on the glass entirely, the try-cocks become limed up and are useless, solely because they are not used.
It will be a good plan for you to take a look at the nozzle on blower now and then, to see that it does not become limedup and to see that it is not turned to the side so that it directs the steam to the side of stack.
Possibly, results equally gratifying might be secured by applying some other substance; I only know that frequently limed lands are generally good lands, as their crops do testify.
I alter day by day in hair and mien, Yet shun not the old dangerous baits and dear, Nor sever from the laurel, limed and green, Which nor the scorching sun, nor fierce cold sear.
The plants at the left represent the average growth on the unlimed portion of a field; the plants at the right show the average growth on the limed part of the same field.
There was a marked difference in the stands obtained and in the growth of the plants on the limed and unlimed areas.
The stands were much heavier on the limed areas and the plants made from two to three times more growth than those on the unlimed plats.
The plats had been previouslylimed and were seeded on the same date.
On the unlimed areas with a low lime requirement 15 per cent more plants winterkilled than on the limed areas; on those with a high lime requirement the increase in winterkilling was 33 per cent.
It was found that from 15 to 35 per cent more plants winterkilled on the unlimed soil than on the limed areas.
I shall swoop among the limed twigs of the werwolf, and they shall not hold me!
Penang nutmegs are of excellent quality and are always placed upon the market unlimed, but they are frequently limed subsequently in foreign ports and markets.
The nutmeg has a peculiar mottled appearance, ranging from grayish brown to light gray or white in the limed article, the depressions and grooves holding the lime while the ridges and elevations are free from it.
The Tachytes, who stubbornly persists in tugging at her limed Mantis and refuses to acknowledge any other method of wresting her from the Silene's snare, shows us the Wasp in an unflattering light.
Where straws and cords are to be limed it should be very hot, and after they are prepared they should be kept in a leather bag till used.
He states the tree is about 50 years old and stands in well-limed permanent pasture near the crest of a ridge, in Muskingum silt loam.
Most orchards and groves are fertilized only with nitrogen, phosphorus and potash, and limedwhen necessary.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "limed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
