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limn

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4 lettersPronunciation /lɪm/Part of speech verbSorted ilmnStarts with LEnds with N0 clues
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Definitions

  1. make a portrait of

Used in a sentence

  • Who then to frail Mortality ſhall truſt, / But limns in Water, or but writes in Duſt.
  • Then the Painter, according to the pattern of ſome living thing, portraieth [draweth out] the picture groſly; afterward he reſembleth it to the life, and with his pencil limneth it with different painting colors.
  • Read books which are in french and Latin, for so you may retain and increase your knowledge in Latin: some times draw and limn and practise perspective.

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