Emily Dickinson Lexicon

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. eulumineur; 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. {foreign}, 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.

LIM'OUS, a. [L. limosus, from limus, slime.]

Muddy; slimy; thick. Brown.

LIMP, a.

Vapid; weak. [Not used.] Walton.

LIMP, n.

A halt; act of limping.

LIMP, v.i. [Sax. lemp-healt, lame; gelimpan, to happen, that is, to fall; allied perhaps to lame.]

To halt; to walk lamely. Bacon.

LIMP'ER, n.

One that limps.

LIMP'ET, n. [L. lepas; Gr. {foreign}, from {foreign}, to peel or strip off bark.]

A univalve shell of the genus Patella, adhering to rocks.

LIM'PID, a. [L. limpidus; Gr. {foreign}, to shine.]

Pure; clear; transparent; as, a limpid stream.