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1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 599 Hereupon comes Lixivus cinis, i. Lie ashes, which being drunk is medicinable.

1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke ii. iii. 115 Lye-wash..is made of ashes and water.

1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 74 The Lye Brush is made of Hogs-Bristles fastned into a Board with Brass-Wyer.

1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 74 A Lye-Kettle..commonly holds about three Gallons.

1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 73 The Lye-Trough..is a Square Trough made of Inch-Boards.

1736 W. Ellis London & Country Brewer II. iv. 24 A Lye Tub, tho' generally neglected as the worst..for a Cooler, has really proved the sweetest and safest of any.

1763 Museum Rusticum (1764) 1 53 The straw in the bottom of your lye-vessel.

1824 J. Johnson Typographia II. 489 As soon as a form is wrought-off, the press-man to carry it to the lye-trough, and there completely rub it over with lye.

1843 ‘R. Carlton’ New Purchase I. ix. 63 A lie-cask, or, rather, an inverted pyramidical box to contain ashes.

1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words I Lie-leach.

1852 W. B. Dewees & ‘C. Cardelle’ Lett. from Early Settler Texas 20 Our subsistence was principally upon..a kind of lye hominy seasoned with hickory nut kernels.

1854 M. J. Holmes Tempest & Sunshine xv. 202 Now be keerful and not run afoul of the plaguey lye leech!

1882 J. Southward Pract. Printing (1884) 406 Lye is applied to the forme with a lye brush.

1919 J. P. Dunn Indiana II. 1170 A woman situated like Mrs. McCoy, in her Indian boarding school, with no food but lye hominy in the house..‘degraded her soul’ by cooking lye hominy.

1948 E. N. Dick Dixie Frontier 290 Lye hominy was made by soaking the whole grains of corn in lye water to remove the hulls.