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Lame   /leɪm/   Listen
adjective
Lame  adj.  (compar. lamer; superl. lamest)  
1.
(a)
Moving with pain or difficulty on account of injury, defect, or temporary obstruction of a function; as, a lame leg, arm, or muscle.
(b)
To some degree disabled by reason of the imperfect action of a limb; crippled; as, a lame man. "Lame of one leg." "Lame in both his feet." "He fell, and became lame."
2.
Hence, hobbling; limping; inefficient; imperfect; as, a lame answer. "A lame endeavor." "O, most lame and impotent conclusion!"
Lame duck
(a)
(Stock Exchange), a person who can not fulfill his contracts. (Cant)
(b)
An elected politician who is completing a term after having been defeated at an election; also, an office holder who cannot or chooses not to run again for the same office; So called from the presumed lack of political power of one who is soon to be out of office.
(c)
Any office holder who is serving out a term after a replacement has been selected.



verb
Lame  v. t.  (past & past part. lamed; pres. part. laming)  To make lame. "If you happen to let child fall and lame it."






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"Lame" Quotes from Famous Books



... and deaf are the individualizing designations of the wretched; in Luke xiv. 13-21, the blind are named along with the poor, lame, and maimed as an individualizing designation of the whole genus of personae miserabiles; comp. John v. 3. But this individualizing designation must be carefully distinguished from the image. The blind and deaf ...
— Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions. Vol. 2 • Ernst Hengstenberg

... a golden age in the past. Greece was glorious for a little while, but her literature tells us of her ideals. The isles of Greece, where Byron contracted his last illness, would have left him to die among the rocks twenty-five hundred years earlier, because he had a lame foot. We at least were kinder to animals, and that ...
— The Master-Knot of Human Fate • Ellis Meredith

... chief Eunuch, have not you seen, pray, her Majesty's Dog? Zadig very cooly replied, you mean her Bitch, I presume. You say very right Sir, said the Eunuch, 'tis a Spaniel-Bitch indeed.—And very small said Zadig: She has had Puppies too lately; she's a little lame with her left Fore-foot, and has long Ears. By your exact Description, Sir, you must doubtless have seen her, said the Eunuch, almost out of Breath. But I have not Sir, notwithstanding, neither did I know, but by you, that the Queen ever had such ...
— Zadig - Or, The Book of Fate • Voltaire

... stared politely at the curious-looking little lame man, and though his size was insignificant, he was quite worth staring at. He had short grizzled hair, which stood about an inch above his head like the bristles of a brush, gentle brown eyes, that ...
— Hunter Quatermain's Story • H. Rider Haggard

... Barry," and followed by three stalwart men and the two young women who had formerly accompanied her at their first meeting, Mrs. Tracey, although still slightly lame, ran to him and shook ...
— Edward Barry - South Sea Pearler • Louis Becke


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