lime-twigged
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Adjective[edit]
lime-twigged (comparative more lime-twigged, superlative most lime-twigged)
- Beset with snares.
- Ensnared, as with birdlime.
- 1679, Lancelot Addison, The Life and Death of Mahumed:
- have their Conſultations lime-twigg'd with Quirks and Sophiſms of Philoſmophical Perſmons
References[edit]
- “lime-twigged”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.