Posted on 12/18/2015 5:21:22 AM PST by tioga
In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
Limn
Verb
2. To suffuse or highlight with light or color; illuminate: "There was just enough juice left in Merrill's flashlight to limn the outlines: A round lobe here. Another lobe over there" (Hampton Sides).
3. To describe or portray in words.
Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence.
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.
The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
Practice makes perfect.....post on....
Review Threads:
Review Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish (Be SURE to check out posts #92 and #111 on this thread!)
Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister
Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate
Roll Call.
After the budget deal he made, I’d like to tear Paul Ryan limn from limn!
Two weekends ago, I was declared Baronial Minstrel at our re-enactor event.
I received a beautifully limned scroll in period medieval style. I’m getting it properly framed. :D
Obama is no challenge to limn
It is easy to write about himn
A fish out of water
A Muslim supporter
Conceited and arrogant, dimn
True, true, Truthy. A++++
Make sure they smooth it out completely before inserting the scroll in the frame, to avoid minstrel crimps.
Good morning.
The Minstrel’s Guild refers to our craft as “minstrating”.
We just go with the flow, because we’re bloody good at what we do...
I had a pedestrian cross in front of me as I was heading home from work. These days it gets dark early, you know.
At least, I assume it was a pedestrian, all I saw was a silhouette, limned by the distant streetlights and reflections from other cars. The shadow-form in front of me may well have been a dementor.
Nice.
Hey, stranger!
LOL. After that post, I’m ready for the sanitary-um.
For the idiots at the UN
Who would not understand
Bibi Limned a simple bomb
And held it in his hand.
It showed the clear and present state
Of a Nuclear Iran
But the fools just turned away
And snubbed him, to a man.
Not seeing that their glowing fate
Is part of Iran’s Plan.
Aw, c’mon, don’t pad the puns...
The Nativity icon limns the true nature of the Feast:
http://www.antiochian.org/icons-explained-nativity
As with all Icons, it is a window to Heaven!!!!
How about a word that normal people understand? “limn” is used only by columnists born in the 1800’s.
You are welcome to volunteer to host a thread and post words of your choosing. Tioga does this at least twice a week for everyone.
Henry Wadsworth Longfelow limned the horrors of the War Between the States in “I Heard the Bells” (3rd verse). Relates to Christmas.
https://www.citizenlink.com/2015/12/17/i-heard-the-bells-stoplight/?skip_splash=1
I watched the repubbies absolutely surrender the entire budget to Obola, Pelosi, Reid and their national press corspe ... It was lke swimming in Limmburger cheese dip.
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