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• limp´ness — limp1 «lihmp», noun, verb. –n a lame step or walk. ╂[< verb] –v.i. 1. to walk with a limp: »After falling down the stairs, he limped for several days. SYNONYM(S): hobble. 2. Figurative. to proceed slowly and with difficulty: »The plane limped… …   Useful english dictionary

• limp´ly — limp1 «lihmp», noun, verb. –n a lame step or walk. ╂[< verb] –v.i. 1. to walk with a limp: »After falling down the stairs, he limped for several days. SYNONYM(S): hobble. 2. Figurative. to proceed slowly and with difficulty: »The plane limped… …   Useful english dictionary

• limp´ing|ly — limp1 «lihmp», noun, verb. –n a lame step or walk. ╂[< verb] –v.i. 1. to walk with a limp: »After falling down the stairs, he limped for several days. SYNONYM(S): hobble. 2. Figurative. to proceed slowly and with difficulty: »The plane limped… …   Useful english dictionary

• limp´er — limp1 «lihmp», noun, verb. –n a lame step or walk. ╂[< verb] –v.i. 1. to walk with a limp: »After falling down the stairs, he limped for several days. SYNONYM(S): hobble. 2. Figurative. to proceed slowly and with difficulty: »The plane limped… …   Useful english dictionary

• limp — limp1 [limp] vi. [ME lympen < OE limpan, to befall, occur (in a specialized sense, to walk lamely), akin to MHG limpfen, to walk with a limp, OHG limfan, to befall, happen < IE * (s)lemb < base * leb , to hang down, be limp > SLUMP,… …   English World dictionary

• rag doll — noun a cloth doll that is stuffed and (usually) painted • Hypernyms: ↑doll, ↑dolly * * * noun 1. : a stuffed and usually painted cloth doll 2. : a device for testing the germination of seed consisting of a strip of cloth that has numbered squares …   Useful english dictionary

• dish|rag — «DIHSH RAG», noun. U.S. 1. a cloth to wash dishes with; dishcloth. 2. anything wet and limp. 3. = dishcloth gourd. (Cf. ↑dishcloth gourd) …   Useful english dictionary

• Viscount Raoul de Chagny — Infobox character colour = name = Vicomte Raoul de Chagny first = The Phantom of the Opera age = 21 (original novel) born = ca. 1860 (original novel) occupation = Viscount title = Viscount de Chagny family = Count Philbert de Chagny (father,… …   Wikipedia

• perciform — ▪ fish order Introduction       any member of the order Perciformes, a group of bony fishes with more than 6,000 species placed in about 150 families. The order is the largest group of fishes in the world today. Perciform fishes occur in… …   Universalium

• ragfish — /rag fish /, n., pl. (esp. collectively) ragfish, (esp. referring to two or more kinds or species) ragfishes. a deep sea fish of the family Icosteidae, inhabiting the North Pacific, having a very flexible body owing to its soft, highly… …   Universalium

• Glossary of poker terms — The following is a glossary of poker terms used in the card game of poker. It supplements the Glossary of card terms. Besides the terms listed here, there are thousands of common and uncommon poker slang terms. This is not intended to be a formal …   Wikipedia