limous
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin limosus, from limus (“slime, mud”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]limous (comparative more limous, superlative most limous)
- muddy; slimy; thick
- 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
- the settling of mud and limous matter brought down by the river Nilus
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “limous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)