"lime-fingered" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more lime-fingered",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most lime-fingered",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "name": "en-adj"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1562, John Heywood, John Stephen Farmer, The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood, page 26",
          "text": "A clean-fingered huswife, and an idle, folk say, And will be lime-fingered, I fear, by my fay!",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1863, Joseph Hall, The Works of the Joseph Hall, page 227",
          "text": "Not careless, slothful, false, lime-fingered servants; but the strict master, that observes, and rates, and chastises them: would he hold his hands and tongue, there would be peace.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1906, Samuel Purchas, Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes, page 448",
          "text": "Popes long hands and Lime-fingered Appeales.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Given to petty thievery; light-fingered."
      ],
      "id": "en-lime-fingered-en-adj-OlKEIZJu",
      "links": [
        [
          "petty",
          "petty"
        ],
        [
          "thievery",
          "thievery"
        ],
        [
          "light-fingered",
          "light-fingered"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) Given to petty thievery; light-fingered."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "lime-fingered"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more lime-fingered",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most lime-fingered",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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        "English entries with incorrect language header",
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        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1562, John Heywood, John Stephen Farmer, The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood, page 26",
          "text": "A clean-fingered huswife, and an idle, folk say, And will be lime-fingered, I fear, by my fay!",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1863, Joseph Hall, The Works of the Joseph Hall, page 227",
          "text": "Not careless, slothful, false, lime-fingered servants; but the strict master, that observes, and rates, and chastises them: would he hold his hands and tongue, there would be peace.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1906, Samuel Purchas, Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes, page 448",
          "text": "Popes long hands and Lime-fingered Appeales.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Given to petty thievery; light-fingered."
      ],
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        [
          "petty",
          "petty"
        ],
        [
          "thievery",
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        ],
        [
          "light-fingered",
          "light-fingered"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) Given to petty thievery; light-fingered."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "lime-fingered"
}