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Limp   /lɪmp/   Listen
noun
Limp  n.  A manner of walking in which the movement of one or both legs is noticeably abnormal, usually due to injury or disease; a halt; the act of limping.


Limp  n.  (Ore Washing) A scraper for removing poor ore or refuse from the sieve.


adjective
Limp  adj.  
1.
Flaccid; flabby, as flesh.
2.
Lacking stiffness; flimsy; as, a limp cravat.


verb
Limp  v. i.  (past & past part. limped; pres. part. limping)  To halt; to walk lamely. Also used figuratively.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Limp" Quotes from Famous Books



... recruit. Many of them now sat hat in hand, mopping, and puffing, and turning their red perspiring faces to the wind. 'Poough,' gasped one, as if he was going to be sick; 'Puff,' went another; 'Oh! but it's 'ot!' exclaimed a third, pulling off his limp neckcloth; 'Wonder if there's any ale hereabouts,' cried a fourth; 'Terrible run!' observed a fifth; 'Ten miles at least,' gasped another. Meanwhile the hounds went streaming on; and it is wonderful how soon those who don't follow are ...
— Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour • R. S. Surtees
... ease with which he twisted Deane upon his back and put the handcuffs about his wrists. The work was no sooner done than he understood. A rag was tied about Deane's head, and it was stained with blood. The man's arms and body were limp. He looked at Billy with dulled eyes, and as he slowly realized what had happened a groan broke ...
— Isobel • James Oliver Curwood
... amused the children much. They were hideously ugly, but the cleverest monkeys I ever saw. They went through a regular little play, quarrelled with one another; the man and the boy rode the ape, and made him kick; at last the ape was hurt, and lay fainting in the man's arms, limp and languid, just able to sip a little water; then he died, and dropped down stiff, with his eyes shut. His tail was pulled, his lips and eyelids were forced open, but he never winked an eyelid or moved a hair of his whiskers. ...
— A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam' • Annie Allnut Brassey
... had jumped out from behind its cloud like a cuckoo in a clock, and fallen full upon the drifting boat, now hardly fifty yards away. In the bottom of it lay a man, sprawled over his useless oars, his upturned face very white in the moonlight, limp legs huddled under him anyhow. Something in the abandon of his position suggested that he would not get up ...
— Captivating Mary Carstairs • Henry Sydnor Harrison
... to have father let me stay away from church today because my leg was sore but he said all rite you can stay, but i gess that leg will be too sore to let you go in swiming this week. so i went to church and dident limp enny. this afternoon i set under the apple tree and read Bush Boys. father and mother went to ride with Nellie. it is the first time mother has been out. Aunt Sarah took care of the baby. they gess ...
— The Real Diary of a Real Boy • Henry A. Shute


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