"lime-fingered" meaning in English

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      "form": "most lime-fingered",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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          "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!",
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          "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.",
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          "ref": "1906, Samuel Purchas, Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes, page 448:",
          "text": "Popes long hands and Lime-fingered Appeales.",
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      "glosses": [
        "Given to petty thievery; light-fingered."
      ],
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          "light-fingered",
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        "(obsolete) Given to petty thievery; light-fingered."
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  "word": "lime-fingered"
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      "form": "more lime-fingered",
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    {
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        "superlative"
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  "pos": "adj",
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          "text": "A clean-fingered huswife, and an idle, folk say, And will be lime-fingered, I fear, by my fay!",
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          "ref": "1863, Joseph Hall, The Works of the Joseph Hall, page 227:",
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          "ref": "1906, Samuel Purchas, Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes, page 448:",
          "text": "Popes long hands and Lime-fingered Appeales.",
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        "Given to petty thievery; light-fingered."
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        "(obsolete) Given to petty thievery; light-fingered."
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