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Quicklime. World English Historical Dictionary

Quicklime. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1910, rev. 2025. Quicklime [f. QUICK a. + LIME, after L. calx viva (Vitruvius), F. chaux vive, etc.] Lime that has been burned and not yet slaked with water; calcium oxide, CaO.

1 c. 1400.  Rom. Rose, 4179. The mortere … Of quykke lyme persant and egre.

2 1489.  Caxton, Faytes of A., II. xxxix. 163. To be cast to the shyp of the enemies pottes full of quyk lyme made in to pouldre.

3 a. 1533.  Ld. Berners, Huon, cxii. 389. They cast vpon them hote lede and boylynge oyle and quycke Lyme.

4 1590.  Webbe, Trav. (Arb.), 31. Constrained to drinke salte water and quicklime.

5 1685.  Boyle, Salubr. Air, 61. Such a thick smoke as good quicklime is wont to doe, whilst men slake it with water.

6 1703.  Moxon, Mech. Exerc., 242. Quick Lime … consumes dead Bodies put therein.

7 1813.  Sir H. Davy, Agric. Chem., vii. (1814), 317. Quicklime in its pure state … is injurious to plants.

8 1873.  B. Stewart, Conserv. Force, iii. 58. Limestone … is decomposed when subjected to the heat of a lime-kiln, carbonic acid being given off, while quick-lime remains behind.

9   attrib.  1684.  Boyle, Porousn. Anim. & Solid Bod., vi. 55. Dip a very large Sponge in good Quick-lime-water.

10 1861.  Flor. Nightingale, Nursing, ii. 23. Washing the walls and ceilings with quick-lime wash.

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