Emily Dickinson Lexicon

LIME'-TWIG, n.

A twig smeared with lime. – Milton.

LIME'-TWIG-GED, a.

Smeared with lime. – Addison.

LIME'-WA-TER, n.

Water impregnated with lime.

LIM'ING, ppr.

Daubing with viscous matter; entangling; manuring with lime.

LIM'IT, n. [L. limes; Fr. limites. See Limb.]

1. Bound; border; utmost extent; the part that terminates a thing; as, the limit of a town, city or empire; the limits of human knowledge.
2. The thing which bounds; restraint.
3. Limits, plur., the extent of the liberties of a prison.

LIM'IT, v.t.

1. To bound; to set bounds to.
2. To confine within certain bounds; to circumscribe; to restrain. The government of England is called a limited monarchy. They tempted God and limited the Holy One of Israel. – Ps. lxxviii.
3. To restrain from a lax or general signification. World sometimes signifies the universe, and sometimes its signification is limited to this earth.

LIM'IT-A-BLE, a.

That may be limited, circumscribed, bounded, or restrained. – Hume.

LIM-IT-A'NE-OUS, a.

Pertaining to bounds. – Dict.

LIM-IT-A'RI-AN, n.

One that limits; one who holds the doctrine that a part of the human race only are to be saved; opposed to universalist. – Huntington.

LIM-IT-A'RI-AN, n.

That limits or circumscribes.

LIM'IT-A-RY, a.

Placed at the limit, as a guard. Proud limitary cherub. – Milton.

LIM-IT-A'TION, n. [L. limitatio.]

1. Time act of bounding or circumscribing.
2. Restriction; restraint; circumscription. The king consented to a limitation of his prerogatives. Government by the limitation of natural rights secures civil liberty.
3. Restriction; confinement from a lax indeterminate import. Words of general import are often to be understood with limitations.
4. A certain precinct within which friars were allowed to beg or exercise their functions. – Gilping.

LIM'IT-ED, pp.

1. Bounded; circumscribed; restrained.
2. adj. Narrow; circumscribed. Our views of nature are very limited.

LIM'IT-ED-LY, adv.

With limitation.

LIM'IT-ED-NESS, n.

State of being limited. – Parker.

LIM'IT-ER, n.

1. He or that which limits or confines.
2. A friar licensed to beg within certain bounds, or whose duty was limited to a certain district.

LIM'IT-LESS, a.

Haying no limits; unbounded. – Davies.

LIM'MER, n.

1. A limehound; a mongrel. – Johnson.
2. A dog engendered between a hound and a mastif. – Bailey.
3. A thill or shaft. [Local. See Limber.]
4. A thill-horse. [Local.]

LIMN, v.t. [lim; Fr. enluminer; L. lumino.]

To draw or paint; or to paint in water colors. – Encyc.

LIM'NED, pp. [lim'med.]

Painted.

LIM'NER, n. [Fr. enlumineur; L. illuminator, in the middle ages, alluminor.]

1. One that colors or paints on paper or parchment; one who decorates books with initial pictures. – Encyc.
2. A portrait painter.

LIM-NI'ADES, n. [Gr. λιμνη, a lake or pool.]

In mythology, the nymphs of the lakes. Hence, in zoology, a tribe of fresh-water univalve molusca. – Haldeman.

LIMN'ING, n.

The act or art of drawing or painting in water colors. – Addison.

LIMN'ING, ppr.

Drawing; painting; painting in water colors.

LIM'ON-ITE, n.

Prismatic iron ore; its color consists of various shades of brown; its surface deeply striated length-wise of the prism. – Mohs.