Vocabulary : Limestone to Limitaneous

Limestone : 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.
Lime-twigged : Beset with snares; insnared, as with birdlime.
Limewater : Water impregnated with lime; esp., an artificial solution of lime for medicinal purposes.
Limicolae : A group of shore birds, embracing the plovers, sandpipers, snipe, curlew, etc. ; the Grallae.
Limicoline : Shore-inhabiting; of or pertaining to the Limicolae.

Liminess : The state or quality of being limy.
Liming : of Lime
Limit : 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. ;; The space or thing defined by limits. ;; That which terminates a period of time; hence, the period itself; the full time or extent. ;; A restriction; a check; a curb; a hindrance. ;; A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic; a differentia. ;; 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. ;; 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. ;; To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region; as, a limiting fria
Limitable : Capable of being limited.
Limitaneous : Of or pertaining to a limit.

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