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Lame   /leɪm/   Listen
adjective
Lame  adj.  (compar. lamer; superl. lamest)  
1.
(a)
Moving with pain or difficulty on account of injury, defect, or temporary obstruction of a function; as, a lame leg, arm, or muscle.
(b)
To some degree disabled by reason of the imperfect action of a limb; crippled; as, a lame man. "Lame of one leg." "Lame in both his feet." "He fell, and became lame."
2.
Hence, hobbling; limping; inefficient; imperfect; as, a lame answer. "A lame endeavor." "O, most lame and impotent conclusion!"
Lame duck
(a)
(Stock Exchange), a person who can not fulfill his contracts. (Cant)
(b)
An elected politician who is completing a term after having been defeated at an election; also, an office holder who cannot or chooses not to run again for the same office; So called from the presumed lack of political power of one who is soon to be out of office.
(c)
Any office holder who is serving out a term after a replacement has been selected.



verb
Lame  v. t.  (past & past part. lamed; pres. part. laming)  To make lame. "If you happen to let child fall and lame it."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Lame" Quotes from Famous Books



... driven away, I found myself beside a lame old man, with whiskers, and delightful eyes, who continued to smile after the carriage had quite vanished. Noticing, perhaps, that I, too, was smiling, he said: "'Tes a funny thing, tu, when a maid like that ...
— Tatterdemalion • John Galsworthy

... instant a voice came from the heavens: "Thou art my son; this day have I begotten thee." He was tempted by Satan, and of like passions with men; he was spotless and sinless, and the blameless and righteous man; he made whole the lame, the paralytic, and those born blind, and he raised the dead; he was called, because of his mighty works, a magician, and a deceiver of the people. He stood in the midst of his brethren the Apostles, ...
— The Freethinker's Text Book, Part II. - Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History • Annie Besant

... the Cathedral the morning after the return of the French troops, they found their Father resting after an operation which had removed from his leg a piece of shell, which had nearly cost his life and would make him permanently lame. Their Mother met them as they came in. She was pale but smiling. "What a joy to see you!" she cried, as she pressed them to her breast. "You may take one look at your Father and throw him a kiss; then you must go ...
— The French Twins • Lucy Fitch Perkins

... "In the stable, dead lame, general," said Jeff, with face of woe, but with diplomatic use of the brevet. "Can't put his nigh fore foot to the ground, sir. I've got it poulticed, sir, and he'll be all right in a ...
— Starlight Ranch - and Other Stories of Army Life on the Frontier • Charles King

... came Abner limping in, and told how a savage had been seen creeping after him with a battle-ax, and how he had lain insensible for days, and now was lame for life. George managed to forgive Jacky's unkind desertion, but for creeping after Abner and "spoiling him for life," to use Abner's phrase, he vowed vengeance on that black hide ...
— It Is Never Too Late to Mend • Charles Reade


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