单词 | lime juice |
释义 | lime juicen. a. The juice of the lime used as a beverage and as an antiscorbutic. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > fruit juice or squash > [noun] > lime juice or squash lime juice1704 lime squash1909 lime1923 the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > preparations treating or preventing specific ailments > [noun] > for scurvy > plant-derived > plant-derived drinks scurvy-grass medicine1609 scurvy-ale1618 scurvy-grass ale1661 scurvy-grass1664 lime juice1704 Botany Bay tea1728 1704 London Gaz. No. 4074/4 A Parcel of extraordinary good Rum and Lime-juice, to be sold. 1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xxxvi. 326 Three times a day did these high-spirited fellows drink a wine glass of olive-oil and lime-juice. 1854 Act 17 & 18 Victoria c. 104 §224 The master of every such Ship..shall serve out the Lime or Lemon Juice..and Sugar and Vinegar to the Crew, whenever they have consumed Salt Provisions for Ten Days. 1859 K. Cornwallis Panorama New World I. 49 Some that had not yet ‘got the lime-juice off them’, i.e. unmistakable new chums. b. attributive in lime-juice writing, writing with lime juice as a sympathetic ink. ΚΠ 1877 S. J. Owen Surv. Wellesley's Adminstr. 43 in Marquess Wellesley Select. Desp. [He] may seem, by a sort of lime-juice writing, to have invalidated much which he does not repudiate. Derivatives ˈlime-juicer n. (a) Australian one who has lately made the voyage from England; a ‘new chum’ (cf. quot. 1859 at sense a). (b) U.S. a British sailor or ship, so called because in the British navy the consumption of lime juice is enforced (as an antiscorbutic). (c) An advocate of the use of lime juice. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Antipodes > native or inhabitant of Australia > [noun] > of English origin sterling1827 lime-juicer1859 jackeroo1864 pomegranate1912 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessels from specific country or region > [noun] > English or British Englishman1533 red cross1624 lime-juicer1859 Limey1918 1859 K. Cornwallis Panorama New World I. 58 Turn that lime-juicer out. 1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 26 Aug. 11/1 They would not go on a ‘lime-juicer’, they said, for anything. 1891 C. Creighton Hist. Epidemics Brit. I. 596 Hawkins, it will have been remarked, was no bigoted ‘lime-juicer’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1704 |
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