slack-limen.
Lime in the state of being slacked.
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slaked lime1622
cream of lime1770
slack-lime1840
1840 E. A. Poe Balloon Hoax in Wks. (1865) I. 92 A coffee-warmer, contrived for warming coffee by means of slack-lime.
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n.1840- to know where one stands with someone
- to know where the bodies are buried
- to know where the shoe wrings one
- to know where to find a person
- to know whereof one etc
- to know whereof one speaks
- to know whereof one writes
- to know which side one's bread is buttered
- to know which way is up
- to know which way the wind blows
- to knuckle down to
- to labour one's needs
- to labour one's way
- to labour under a misapprehension
- to labour with one's hands
- to lace into
- to lack
- to lackey it
- to lade up
- to lake
- to lam into one
- to lam it into one
- to lam out
- to lamb down
- to lame-duck it