Lima, limæ, f. g. Quint. A file. Lima per translationem.The last cortection, emendation, or castigation: beeing as it were a pollishing. vt, Vltima lima defuit meis seriptis. Ouidius.My wrttings tacked the last correction or pollishing.Vti lima mordacius.Ouidius.To correct a thing or worke too rigorouflie.Liber rasus lima.Ouid.A booke corrected.
Limus, Adiectiuum, Quod & Limis dicitur. Festus. Crooked: awrie: askew.Limis oculis aspicere vel intueri. Plin. To cast a wanton eye on one: to looke a skew.Ocellis limis subridere.Ouid.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
līma, ae, f. [etym. unknown], a file. I.Lit.: limā proterere aliquid, Plaut. Men. 1, 1, 9: limā aliquid avellere, Plin. 9, 35, 54, 109: limā aliquid polire, id. 28, 9, 41, 148: topazius limam sentit, id. 37, 8, 32, 109: confitendum est detrahere doctrinam aliquid, ut limam rudibus, Quint. 2, 12, 8: vipera limam momordit, Phaedr. 4, 8, 5.—II.Trop., a file, as applied to literary compositions, i. e. polishing, revision (not in Cic.; cf., however, limatus, under limo): defuit et scriptis ultima lima meis, Ov. Tr. 1, 7, 30: incipiam limā mordacius uti, Et sub judicium singula verba vocem, id. P. 1, 5, 19: limae labor et mora, Hor. A. P. 291: carmina rasa limā recenti, Mart. 10, 2, 3: in illis limae, in hoc plus videtur fuisse sanguinis, Vell. 2, 9, 2: ad limam consilii desiderium petitoris distulit, App. M. 8, p. 204 fin.