Definition of lame

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Lame (superl.) To some degree disabled by reason of the imperfect action of a limb; crippled; as, a lame man..

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Versatile :: Versatile (a.) Capable of turning; freely movable; as, a versatile anther, which is fixed at one point to the filament, and hence is very easily turned around; a versatile toe of a bird..
Blamer :: Blamer (n.) One who blames.
Lame :: Lame (v. t.) To make lame.
Lamellate :: Lamellate (a.) Alt. of Lamellate.
Lamellirostral :: Lamellirostral (a.) Having a lamellate bill, as ducks and geese..
Stifle :: Stifle (v. t.) To stop; to extinguish; to deaden; to quench; as, to stifle the breath; to stifle a fire or flame..
Inequilateral :: Inequilateral (a.) Having the two ends unequal, as in the clam, quahaug, and most lamellibranch shells..
Heat :: Heat (v. t.) To excite ardor in; to rouse to action; to excite to excess; to inflame, as the passions..
Gabbro :: Gabbro (n.) A name originally given by the Italians to a kind of serpentine, later to the rock called euphotide, and now generally used for a coarsely crystalline, igneous rock consisting of lamellar pyroxene (diallage) and labradorite, with sometimes chrysolite (olivine gabbro)..
Inculpable :: Inculpable (a.) Faultless; blameless; innocent.
Game :: Game (n.) Crooked; lame; as, a game leg..
Siphon :: Siphon (n.) One of the tubes or folds of the mantle border of a bivalve or gastropod mollusk by which water is conducted into the gill cavity. See Illust. under Mya, and Lamellibranchiata..
Ductility :: Ductility (n.) The property of a metal which allows it to be drawn into wires or filaments.
Chromosphere :: Chromosphere (n.) An atmosphere of rare matter, composed principally of incandescent hydrogen gas, surrounding the sun and enveloping the photosphere. Portions of the chromosphere are here and there thrown up into enormous tongues of flame..
Exculpate :: Exculpate (v. t.) To clear from alleged fault or guilt; to prove to be guiltless; to relieve of blame; to acquit.
Flamelet :: Flamelet (n.) A small flame.
Dispraise :: Dispraise (v. t.) The act of dispraising; detraction; blame censure; reproach; disparagement.
Reprehend :: Reprehend (v. t.) To reprove or reprimand with a view of restraining, checking, or preventing; to make charge of fault against; to disapprove of; to chide; to blame; to censure..
Enkindle :: Enkindle (v. t.) To set on fire; to inflame; to kindle.
Curb :: Curb (n.) A swelling on the back part of the hind leg of a horse, just behind the lowest part of the hock joint, generally causing lameness..
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