Associations to the word «Limn»

Wiktionary

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

Dictionary definition

LIMN, verb. Trace the shape of.
LIMN, verb. Make a portrait of; "Goya wanted to portray his mistress, the Duchess of Alba".

Wise words

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do, as well as talk, and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca