Usually means: Depict or describe in painting.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. limn: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. limn: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. limn: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. limn: Collins English Dictionary
  5. limn: Vocabulary.com
  6. Limn, Limn, limn: Wordnik
  7. limn, limn-: Wiktionary
  8. limn: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. limn: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. limn: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Limn, limn: Dictionary.com
  12. limn: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Limn: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. limn: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. limn: Rhymezone
  16. Limn: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. limn: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. limn: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  19. limn: Free Dictionary
  20. limn: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. limn: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. limn: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. Limn: Infoplease Dictionary
  24. limn: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
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  2. limn-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements
  3. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)

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  1. limn: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. limn: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. limn: A Word A Day

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. LIMN: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (limn)

verb:  (transitive, also figuratively) To draw or paint; to delineate.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To illuminate, as a manuscript; to decorate with gold or some other bright colour.

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