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Limps vs Limns - What's the difference?

limps | limns |

As verbs the difference between limps and limns

is that limps is (limp) while limns is (limn).

As a noun limps

is .

limps

English

Noun

(head)

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (limp)

    • Anagrams

    *

    limns

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (limn)

    • limn

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To draw or paint; delineate.
  • To describe.
  • (obsolete) To illuminate, as a manuscript.

    • Usage notes

    * Particularly used in arts journalism; not understood by significant portion of American public. The Sun goes out on a limn with unusual headline: Unusual word in front-page headline leaves some readers scratching their heads, Jill Rosen, The Baltimore Sun, September 7, 2010

    Quotations

    * (English Citations of "limn")

    Derived terms

    * limner

    References