Lame

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Lame \Lame\ (l[=a]m), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Lamed} (l[=a]md); p.
     pr. & vb. n. {Laming}.]
     To make lame.
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           If you happen to let child fall and lame it. --Swift.


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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Lame \Lame\ (l[=a]m), a. [Compar. {Lamer} (l[=a]m"[~e]r);
     superl. {Lamest}.] [OE. lame, AS. lama; akin to D. lam, G.
     lahm, OHG., Dan., & Sw. lam, Icel. lami, Russ. lomate to
     break, lomota rheumatism.]
     1.
        (a) Moving with pain or difficulty on account of injury,
            defect, or temporary obstruction of a function; as, a
            lame leg, arm, or muscle.
        (b) To some degree disabled by reason of the imperfect
            action of a limb; crippled; as, a lame man. "Lame of
            one leg." --Arbuthnot. "Lame in both his feet." --2
            Sam. ix. 13. "He fell, and became lame." --2 Sam. iv.
            4.
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     2. Hence, hobbling; limping; inefficient; imperfect; as, a
        lame answer. "A lame endeavor." --Barrow.
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              O, most lame and impotent conclusion! --Shak.
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     {Lame duck}
        (a) (Stock Exchange), a person who can not fulfill his
            contracts. [Cant]
        (b) An elected politician who is completing a term after
            having been defeated at an election; also, an office
            holder who cannot or chooses not to run again for the
            same office; -- So called from the presumed lack of
            political power of one who is soon to be out of
            office.
        (b) Any office holder who is serving out a term after a
            replacement has been selected.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  lame
       adj 1: pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness; "a feeble
              excuse"; "a lame argument" [syn: {feeble}]
       2: (of horses) disabled in the feet or legs [syn: {spavined}]
       3: disabled in the feet or legs; "a crippled soldier"; "a game
          leg" [syn: {crippled}, {halt}, {halting}, {game}]
       n 1: someone who doesn't understand what is going on [syn: {square}]
       2: a fabric interwoven with threads of metal; "she wore a gold
          lame dress"
       v : deprive of the use of a limb, especially a leg; "The
           accident has crippled her for life" [syn: {cripple}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  99 Moby Thesaurus words for "lame":
     abortive, awkward, bad, bootless, bugger, burden, castrate,
     castrated, clumsy, cramp, cripple, crippled, cumber, de-energize,
     debilitate, disable, disabled, disenable, drain, emasculate,
     emasculated, embarrass, encumber, enfeeble, enmesh, ensnarl,
     entangle, entoil, entrammel, entrap, entwine, failed, failing,
     feeble, fetter, flimsy, fruitless, futile, game, half-baked, halt,
     halting, hamper, hamstring, hamstrung, handicap, handicapped,
     hobble, hobbled, hobbling, hors de combat, impaired, impede,
     inactivate, incapacitate, incapacitated, ineffective, ineffectual,
     inefficacious, involve, kibosh, lime, limping, lumber, maim,
     maimed, manque, miscarried, miscarrying, net, of no effect, poor,
     press down, put, queer, queer the works, sabotage, saddle with,
     shackle, snarl, spavined, spike, stickit, stillborn, successless,
     tangle, thin, toil, trammel, unconvincing, unfit, unfortunate,
     unsuccessful, useless, weak, weaken, weigh down, wing, wreck