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Limn   Listen
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Limn  v. t.  (past & past part. limned; pres. part. limning)  
1.
To draw or paint; especially, to represent in an artistic way with pencil or brush. "Let a painter carelessly limn out a million of faces, and you shall find them all different."
2.
Hence: To picture in words; to describe in graphic terms.
3.
To illumine, as books or parchments, with ornamental figures, letters, or borders.






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"Limn" Quotes from Famous Books



... in living lays, To limn the beauty of the earth and sky? Before thine inner gaze Let all that beauty in clear vision lie; Look on it with exceeding love, and write The words inspired ...
— Selections From American Poetry • Various

... to account for all that happened; to make real and living the hoarse roll of musketry, the savage cries of desperadoes stripped to the waist and glistening in their sweat; to give echo to the blood-curdling notes of Chinese trumpets; to limn the tall mountains of flames licking sky high. If there is failure in these efforts, it is due to ...
— Indiscreet Letters From Peking • B. L. Putman Weale



Words linked to "Limn" :   art, artistic creation, interpret, outline, draw, artistic production, lipstick, portray, represent, contour, delineate



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