Meaning of சுண்ணாம்பு in English
- Partaking of the nature of calcite or calcium carbonate; consisting of, or containing, calcium carbonate or carbonate of lime.
- Quality of being calcareous.
- Tending to form, or to become, a calx or earthlike substance on being oxidized or burnt; as magnesium, calcium. etc.
- Holding lime or other earthy salts; as, the calcigerous cells of the teeth.
- A soft, earthy substance, of a white, grayish, or yellowish white color, consisting of calcium carbonate, and having the same composition as common limestone.
- Finely prepared chalk, used as a drawing implement; also, by extension, a compound, as of clay and black lead, or the like, used in the same manner. See Crayon.
- To rub or mark with chalk.
- To manure with chalk, as land.
- To make white, as with chalk; to make pale; to bleach.
- A man who digs chalk.
- of Chalk
- The state of being chalky.
- A mass of chalk.
- A chalklike concretion, consisting mainly of urate of sodium, found in and about the small joints, in the external ear, and in other situations, in those affected with gout; a tophus.
- Consisting of, or resembling, chalk; containing chalk; as, a chalky cliff; a chalky taste.
- A fragrant, aromatic resin, or gum resin, burned as an incense in religious rites or for medicinal fumigation. The best kinds now come from East Indian trees, of the genus Boswellia; a commoner sort, from the Norway spruce (Abies excelsa) and other coniferous trees. The frankincense of the ancient Jews is still unidentified.
- Pertaining to, or like, Limax, or the slugs.
- A thong by which a dog is led; a leash.
- The linden tree. See Linden.
- A fruit allied to the lemon, but much smaller; also, the tree which bears it. There are two kinds; Citrus Medica, var. acida which is intensely sour, and the sweet lime (C. Medica, var. Limetta) which is only slightly sour.
- Birdlime.
- Oxide of calcium; the white or gray, caustic substance, usually called quicklime, obtained by calcining limestone or shells, the heat driving off carbon dioxide and leaving lime. It develops great heat when treated with water, forming slacked lime, and is an essential ingredient of cement, plastering, mortar, etc.
- To smear with a viscous substance, as birdlime.
- To entangle; to insnare.
- To treat with lime, or oxide or hydrate of calcium; to manure with lime; as, to lime hides for removing the hair; to lime sails in order to whiten them.
- To cement.
- A limehound; a limmer.
- 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.
- Muddy; slimy; thick.
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