What's the difference between quicklime and rusma?
Quicklime
Definition:
(a.) Calcium oxide; unslacked lime; -- so called because when wet it develops great heat. See 4th Lime, 2.
Example Sentences:
(1) Their bullet-ridden corpses were covered in quicklime before being thrown into a pit, the better to ensure their rapid decomposition.
(2) Sometime this evening, when the prison is locked up for the night, out of the sight of other inmates, the coffin will be filled with quicklime.
(3) For a few weeks only, visitors to Westminster Abbey can gaze on the second-last resting place of Oliver Cromwell, the grave which the Lord Protector occupied for less than three years before being dug up, ritually executed, decapitated, and buried again in quicklime at the foot of the gallows.
Rusma
Definition:
(n.) A depilatory made of orpiment and quicklime, and used by the Turks. See Rhusma.