lime-twigged

English

Etymology

lime-twig +‎ -ed

Adjective

lime-twigged (comparative more lime-twigged, superlative most lime-twigged)

Beset with snares.
Ensnared, as with birdlime.
- 1679, Lancelot Addison, The Life and Death of Mahumed:
  have their Conſultations lime-twigg'd with Quirks and Sophiſms of Philoſmophical Perſmons

References

“lime-twigged”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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