Definitions for limn

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Spelling: [lim]
IPA: /lɪm/

Limn is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 31 anagrams from letters in limn (ilmn).

Definitions for limn

verb (used with object)

  1. to represent in drawing or painting.
  2. to portray in words; describe.
  3. Obsolete. to illuminate (manuscripts).

Origin of limn

1400-50; late Middle English lymne, variant of Middle English luminen to illuminate (manuscripts), aphetic variant of enlumine Middle French enluminer Latin inlūmināre to embellish, literally

Examples for limn

Somehow the arches and curves of its branches seemed to limn a pattern so dreadful that his heart beat faster as he gazed upon it.

As I have sketched an ideal parlour, so would I limn a bedroom I have seen.

No, madam; the beauty of the features the artist had set himself to limn.

There were no longer these telling situations to limn which spoke for themselves, and without straw, bricks are not to be made.

I fear it is not possible to limn so many persons in so small a tablet as the compass of our plays afford.

How we transpose and dislocate while we limn in aerial colours!

Samuel Ferguson, in Congal, has done little more than limn an obscure shadow of that shadow: yet it haunts the imagination.

It is not possible in a chapter, a book or a five-foot shelf to limn all that is even of cursory interest.

The idealized grid of fairness cannot limn the contours of these deep existential debts.

limn thou, fantastic, free Blue sirens of the sea, And beasts of heraldry.

Word Value for limn
Scrable

6

Words with friends

9

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