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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Lame

Lāme, a.

adjective

a. [compar. LAMER; superl. LAMEST.] [A-S., D., Dan., Sw., & O. H. Ger. lam, N. H. Ger. lahm, Icel. lama.]

  1. Crippled or disabled in a limb, or otherwise injured so as to be unsound and impaired in strength; as, a lame arm or leg, or a person lame in one leg.
  2. Imperfect; not satisfactory.

O, most lame and impotent conclusion! Shak. 3. Hobbling; not smooth. The prose is fustian, and the numbers lame. Dryden. Lame duck, a defaulter at the stock exchange. [Colloq.]

Lāme, v. t.

verbtransitive

[imp. & p. p. LAMED; p. pr. & vb. n. LAMING.] To make lame; to cripple or disable; to render imperfect and unsound; as, to lame an arm or a leg.