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Limn   Listen
verb
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



... that I might limn it, As Love did, with enduring art; Nor dust of days nor death may dim it, Where it lies graven on my heart, Of this sad fabric of my life a part. I would that I might paint her now As I beheld her in that day, Ere ...
— The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar • Paul Laurence Dunbar
... well also, and then comes Mr. Andrews, and we all sung and supped, and then to sing again and passed the Sunday very pleasantly and soberly, and so I to my office a little, and then home to prayers and to bed. Yesterday begun my wife to learn to, limn of one Browne, ...
— Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete • Samuel Pepys


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


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