Definitions for limner

limner lim·ner

Spelling: [lim-ner]
IPA: /ˈlɪm nər/

Limner is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 107 anagrams from letters in limner (eilmnr).

Definitions for limner

noun

  1. a person who paints or draws.
  2. an itinerant painter of 18th-century America who usually had little formal training.
  3. a person who describes or depicts in words:
  4. an illuminator of medieval manuscripts.

Origin of limner

1350-1400; Middle English lymnour, lymynour; see limn, -or2, -er1

Examples for limner

If that was not an acknowledgment of the limner's fidelity, what could be?

Would that she could, or that a limner were here to depict your likeness.

Great indeed is the power, marvellous is the mystery, of the limner's art.

Having, therefore, engaged the limner—for what else could I do?

It does not matter in the least whence the word "limner" is derived.

He was known for reasons sake to the people of the house only as the Frenchman limner.

It was as grim a picture as any limner of the weird could wish to look upon.

"That is Wat the limner," quoth the landlady, sitting down beside Alleyne, and pointing with the ladle to the sleeping man.

"Do you know, I can never get over the idea that 'limner' is something immoral—indecent," said Val.

Nor are the poet's words more adequate than the colours of the limner.

Word Value for limner
Scrable

8

Words with friends

11

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