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Definition of Limes
1. a fortified boundary [n LIMITES]
Medical Definition of Limes
1. A boundary, limit, or threshold. See: L doses. Origin: L. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Limes
Literary usage of Limes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Materials of Construction: Their Manufacture and Properties by Adelbert Philo Mills (1922)
"The hydraulic limes include all those cementing materials, ... The hydraulic
limes therefore occupy an intermediate position between the common limes and ..."
2. Geology of New Jersey by New Jersey Geological Survey, George Hammell Cook (1868)
"limes AND CEMENTS. limes. The subject of lime, with the details of its manufacture,
and its various properties as affected by the character of the original ..."
3. Italy and Her Invaders by Thomas Hodgkin (1885)
"When this custom, ceased, the squadrons (turmae) of cavalry were obliterated;
but the Batavian legion (stationed at Passau) lasted as long as the limes ..."
4. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1914)
"14. sed visum est id non posse fieri nisi si limes Roman us extend? retur et ...
What Probus seems to have done was to reoccupy an<i re-establish the limes ..."
5. The Testing of Materials of Construction: A Text-book for the Engineering by William Cawthorne Unwin (1910)
"limes and cements are of the greatest importance to the engineer, and, ...
Hydraulic limes. 4. Hydraulic cements. The rich or fat limes are produced by the ..."
6. Engineering Geology: By Heinrich Ries and Thomas L. Watson by Heinrich Ries, Thomas Leonard Watson (1914)
"The limes are produced from limestones low in clayey impurities; the cements from
limestones high in clayey substances. In the burning of the former calcium ..."
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