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In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed... No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people. Preface to 1828 Dictionary
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LEM'ON, n.
An oval or roundish fruit
resembling the orange, and containing a pulp usually intensely acid.
It is produced by a tropical tree of the genus Citrus, the
common fruit known in commerce being that of the species C.
Limonum or C. Medica (var. Limonum). There are many
varieties of the fruit, some of which are sweet.
The tree which bears lemons; the lemon
tree.
Lemon grass (Bot.), a fragrant East Indian grass (Andropogon Shœnanthus, and perhaps other allied species), which yields the grass oil used in perfumery. - - Lemon sole (Zoöl.), a yellow European sole (Solea aurantiaca). -- Salts of lemon (Chem.), a white crystalline substance, inappropriately named, as it consists of an acid potassium oxalate and contains no citric acid, which is the characteristic acid of lemon; -- called also salts of sorrel. It is used in removing ink stains. See Oxalic acid, under Oxalic. [Colloq.] | ||||||||