limed in English

verb
1
treat (soil or water) with lime to reduce acidity and improve fertility or oxygen levels.
Soil is limed in some areas to improve barley growth and productivity on acid soils, but this practice is often economically unfeasible.
2
catch (a bird) with birdlime.
verb

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1. So many hotels resemble each other, with fashionable limed wood furniture, chintz fabrics and marble bathrooms.

2. The species appearing in limed plots were ubiquist or known as good competitors and replaced acidophilic and stress species.

3. Individuals can be removed with tweezers, but to prevent re-infestation, the pond will have to be drained and limed.

4. However, degreased and dried bones or ossein, salted, dried and limed hides, and hides and skins treated with alkali or acid may be transported and stored at ambient temperature.

5. This subheading covers limed hides and skins (soaked in lime water or covered by a paste containing lime), pickled hides and skins (steeped in weak solutions of hydrochloric or sulphuric acid or other chemicals to which salt has been added) and hides and skins preserved by other means.

6. A method for Bating soaked, limed, dehaired hides with an enzyme mixture of (a) a bacterial protease having an optimum efficacy toward hemoglobin at a pH from 10 to 12 and (b) a fungus protease having an optimum efficacy toward casein at a pH greater than 7, or a neutral to weakly alkaline bacterial protease, papain, or trypsin.