quicklime

noun

Calcium oxid, CaO; burned lime; lime not yet slaked with water.

noun

Calcium oxide; unslacked lime; — so called because when wet it develops great heat. See 4th lime, 2.

noun

lime, (calcium oxide), produced by heating limestone; on treatment with water it gives slaked lime

verb

To treat with quicklime.

noun

a white crystalline oxide used in the production of calcium hydroxide