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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A bush smeared with lime.
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a fork of the fine twigs of a lime-bush, sometimes in a mangoe -, orange -, or apple-tree, occasionally suspended between three stout grass-stems, or even attached to a single stem of the huge grass from which the native pens are made.
The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870
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