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  • English Word Limestone Definition A rock consisting chiefly of calcium carbonate or carbonate of lime. It sometimes contains also magnesium carbonate, and is then called magnesian or dolomitic limestone. Crystalline limestone is called marble.
  • English Word Limewater Definition Water impregnated with lime; esp., an artificial solution of lime for medicinal purposes.
  • English Word Limicolae Definition A group of shore birds, embracing the plovers, sandpipers, snipe, curlew, etc. ; the Grallae.
  • English Word Limicoline Definition Shore-inhabiting; of or pertaining to the Limicolae.
  • English Word Liminess Definition The state or quality of being limy.
  • English Word Liming Definition of Lime
  • English Word Limit Definition That which terminates, circumscribes, restrains, or confines; the bound, border, or edge; the utmost extent; as, the limit of a walk, of a town, of a country; the limits of human knowledge or endeavor.
  • English Word Limit Definition The space or thing defined by limits.
  • English Word Limit Definition That which terminates a period of time; hence, the period itself; the full time or extent.
  • English Word Limit Definition A restriction; a check; a curb; a hindrance.
  • English Word Limit Definition A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic; a differentia.
  • English Word Limit Definition A determinate quantity, to which a variable one continually approaches, and may differ from it by less than any given difference, but to which, under the law of variation, the variable can never become exactly equivalent.
  • English Word Limit Definition To apply a limit to, or set a limit for; to terminate, circumscribe, or restrict, by a limit or limits; as, to limit the acreage of a crop; to limit the issue of paper money; to limit one's ambitions or aspirations; to limit the meaning of a word.
  • English Word Limit Definition To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region; as, a limiting friar.
  • English Word Limitable Definition Capable of being limited.
  • English Word Limitaneous Definition Of or pertaining to a limit.
  • English Word Limitarian Definition Tending to limit.
  • English Word Limitary Definition Placed at the limit, as a guard.
  • English Word Limitary Definition Confined within limits; limited in extent, authority, power, etc.
  • English Word Limitary Definition Limiting, or tending to limit; restrictive.
  • English Word Limitary Definition That which serves to limit; a boundary; border land.
  • English Word Limitary Definition A limiter. See Limiter, 2.
  • English Word Limitate Definition Bounded by a distinct line.
  • English Word Limitation Definition The act of limiting; the state or condition of being limited; as, the limitation of his authority was approved by the council.
  • English Word Limitation Definition That which limits; a restriction; a qualification; a restraining condition, defining circumstance, or qualifying conception; as, limitations of thought.
  • English Word Limitation Definition A certain precinct within which friars were allowed to beg, or exercise their functions; also, the time during which they were permitted to exercise their functions in such a district.
  • English Word Limitation Definition A limited time within or during which something is to be done.
  • English Word Limitation Definition A certain period limited by statute after which the claimant shall not enforce his claims by suit.
  • English Word Limitation Definition A settling of an estate or property by specific rules.
  • English Word Limitation Definition A restriction of power; as, a constitutional limitation.