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Limp   /lɪmp/   Listen
noun
Limp  n.  A manner of walking in which the movement of one or both legs is noticeably abnormal, usually due to injury or disease; a halt; the act of limping.


Limp  n.  (Ore Washing) A scraper for removing poor ore or refuse from the sieve.


adjective
Limp  adj.  
1.
Flaccid; flabby, as flesh.
2.
Lacking stiffness; flimsy; as, a limp cravat.


verb
Limp  v. i.  (past & past part. limped; pres. part. limping)  To halt; to walk lamely. Also used figuratively.





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"Limp" Quotes from Famous Books



... muttered. "Cholera-nicotine-fantum!" Then he looked at his partner and winked wickedly. Without a word, he took the limp young miner up in his arms and bore him down the hill to his father's cabin, while Stumps and Madge ran along at either side, and tenderly and all the time kept asking ...
— The Little Gold Miners of the Sierras and Other Stories • Various
... already serving, and we used to allow the old fellows to ride in turn upon the ass, particularly towards the end of a long day's march. The number of these "Abu's" (fathers) who developed a pronounced limp at some time or other during the day was astonishing, but the sudden and miraculous cure that was effected by the appearance of the Bash-Rais (native Sergeant-Major) completely bewildered the uninitiated. The second camel, being too young to carry a load, was killed, and gave me my first taste ...
— With Our Army in Palestine • Antony Bluett
... shoulder, lay limp in his arms. He lay on his back, in ecstasy, his legs apart, showing the soft, cream-white fur of his stomach. Nicky rubbed his face against the ...
— The Tree of Heaven • May Sinclair
... had this precious opportunity. And I had it when my whole being was tuned up to highest pitch. I was not in the limp state of one who steps out into his garden and looks up casually to the stars. I was tense with high enterprise. I was passing through unknown country on a journey across the Chinese Empire from Peking ...
— The Heart of Nature - or, The Quest for Natural Beauty • Francis Younghusband
... near, whirl and twist, until out of sheer distress he closed his eyes for relief. But he got no relief. He saw the lights as before, saw them dancing and pirouetting before his eyes, and suddenly whisk away, as though satiated with their fiendishness. But they left him limp and faint and with a throbbing pain in his head. Again he stamped the earth and shook his head. But the darkness clung. He could not throw off the thing before his eyes. Yet he persisted. He tossed his ...
— Bred of the Desert - A Horse and a Romance • Marcus Horton


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