Zaim vs Maim - What's the difference?
zaim | maim |
(archaic) A Turkish irregular mounted militia.
(archaic) The chief of such a militia.
To wound seriously; to cause permanent loss of function of a limb or part of the body.
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*:Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed , comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with (by way of local colour) on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like withered elfin limbs.
