Definitions for limners

limners lim·ner

Spelling: [lim-ner]
IPA: /ˈlɪm nər/

Limners is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 213 anagrams from letters in limners (eilmnrs).

Definitions for limners

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 limners

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

Examples for limners

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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.

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

Word Value for limners
Scrable

8

Words with friends

11

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