Verb (used with object) : The government buildings were freshly limed.    From Dictionary.com. 

A calx is a smartstone, a pebble used for calculating.    From Wordnik.com.  [Centaur Aisle]

The term caliche is Spanish and is originally from the Latin calx, meaning lime.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Business News] Reference

This oxide was formerly termed a "calx," and has long been known to weigh more than the metal from which it was obtained.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines.] Reference

J calx in a loofe or fttlii-induratcd form. id Family.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elements of Mineralogy: By Richard Kirwan, ...] Reference

Ca-lash, an open chariot v. Cal-çine, to burn to a calx.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Scholar's Spelling Assistant; Wherein the Words Are Arranged on an Improved Plan, According to Their Respective Principles of Accentuation. In a Manner Calculated to Familiarize the Art of Spelling and Pronunciation, to Remove Difficulties, and to Facilitate General Improvement Intended for the Use of Schools and Private Tuition] Reference

The real calx of bismuth would probably have the same ill effect.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

It contains 91 pet ct. of aerated calx, and S of acrat'''l barytes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elements of Mineralogy: By Richard Kirwan, ...] Reference

He thought they were "compounded" of a certain earth, or calx, and phlogiston.    From Wordnik.com.  [Priestley in America 1794-1804] Reference

It dccompofes the fotutions of common gypfiim, and of nitrated or muriaicd calx.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elements of Mineralogy: By Richard Kirwan, ...] Reference

One day, Priestley held his burning lens over a calx of mercury (or mercuric oxide).    From Wordnik.com.  [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference

Often eii! rrvci.: ts, though ilighily, with acids, probably from a niixtuic of aerated calx.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elements of Mineralogy: By Richard Kirwan, ...] Reference

Rome from the custom of whitening the toga with chalk or lime (calx) when canvassing for votes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference

As one grain of turpeth mineral (vitriolic calx of mercury) mixed with ten grains of fine sugar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

Refults of other experi - ments with the calx of copper, and precipirate, perfe, in infi: rmmab!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philosophical transactions] Reference

It contains 90 pirr ct. of mild calx and 10 of argill, with a miruue quan - tity of calx of iron.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elements of Mineralogy: By Richard Kirwan, ...] Reference

What they produce for fuch, appears dull and brittle, and is in facfl nothing but tin returning to a calx.    From Wordnik.com.  [A journey through Spain in the years 1786 and 1787;] Reference

Corker is for caulker, i.e. one who stopped the chinks of ships and casks, originally with lime (Lat. calx).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of Names] Reference

On the parts not excoriated mercurial ointment, made of one part of white calx of mercury and six of hogs 'fat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

They are, indeed, a perfeft metajlic calx, to which the names of argchtinc, and fnow of antimony, have been applied.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Economy of Nature Explained and Illustrated: On the Principles of Modern Philosophy. By G ...] Reference

It cannot be doubted that lime (coctilis calx), which is snow-white and lighter than sponge, is useful for the mightiest buildings.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator] Reference

A new and unexpected appearance which occurred in endeavouring to revive the calx of iron, or a calx faturaced with pure air, ibid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philosophical transactions] Reference

I then placed this calx of silver in a small glass retort on the open fire for reduction, and fastened an empty bladder to the neck.    From Wordnik.com.  [Discovery of Oxygen, Part 2] Reference

From the melted ore, in this subterranean region of infernal aspect, is produced a calx, or cinder, of which there is an enormous mountain.    From Wordnik.com.  [An History of Birmingham (1783)] Reference

Analogy betvveen the experiment of the calx of iron imbibing inflammable air, and the iron itfelf imbibing dephlo - gifticated air, p. 302.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philosophical transactions] Reference

No compound of ihefe, in which calx pre-i dominaics, will vitrify, except they lie in the pro. portion of 3 calx, j magncfia, and i argill.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elements of Mineralogy: By Richard Kirwan, ...] Reference

(stone), and calcare (to tread), from calx (knuckle, heel).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adornment of the Spritual Marriage] Reference

'dephlogisticated' substance was held to be in its 'true' form, the calx.    From Wordnik.com.  [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference

He proposed to cause a metallic calx (that is, the substance formed by calcining.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry] Reference

To become a calx by heat.    From Wordnik.com.  [A critical pronouncing dictionary and expositor of the English language] Reference

Powder the calx of cobalt, ve.    From Wordnik.com.  [A dictionary of the English language. Abstracted from the folio ed., by the author. To which is ...] Reference

Any mercurial calx.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

'3 calx A.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elements of Mineralogy: By Richard Kirwan, ...] Reference