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#975 - 03/28/00 11:25 PM Limose
Hartnett stranger Registered: 03/17/00 Posts: 1 Loc: Colorado	The word "limose" is not in my dictionary. The sentence is "I wish we were out of this awful, nameless, limose place." What does it mean? Does this word give the sentence added meaning? Thank you.
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#976 - 04/01/00 03:58 PM Re: Limose
Jackie Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 11582 Loc: Louisville, Kentucky	OK--checked my husband's American College Encyclopedic Dictionary (1955!!), and found: "-ose,an adjective suffix meaning 'full of', 'abounding in', 'given to', or 'like', as is frondose, globose, jocose, otiose, verbose". Also that 'limy' can mean "smeared with bird lime". This would seem to fit with the speaker's feeling. Could also refer to those calcified deposits of lime, or possibly limestone-full. My first thought was that this was a corruption of the word lachrymose, or at least having the same feeling. Another possibility from the dictionary is that it is a corruption of "Lime-house: a district in the East End of London, noted for its squalor". Good luck!
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#977 - 04/02/00 02:05 PM Re: Limose
cadaver stranger Registered: 03/17/00 Posts: 23 Loc: Ohio USA	The OED says that it refers to mud or the nature of mud.
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#978 - 04/03/00 12:19 PM Re: Limose
tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Registered: 04/03/00 Posts: 10472 Loc: this too shall pass	in this context, read 'slimy'...
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