Limned is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for LIMNED in dictionary:

VERB:
• LIMN, (archaic) to portray, paint or delineate
• depict or describe in painting or words
• suffuse or highlight (something) with a bright colour or light
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to depict by painting or drawing

Words related to LIMNED

limn6 limning10 limns7

Words that contain LIMNED

dislimned13

How to use LIMNED in a sentence

• Jack still stared at the earth, his profile limned in gold and the side of his face toward Prather in shadow.
• Hitherto, he regarded building as the background to sculpture, or the surface on which frescoes might be limned.
• The mixture of these qualities in a personality so natural and so clearly limned renders Cellini a most precious subject for the student of Renaissance life and character.
• Beneath me stretched a panorama limned in feverish greens and unhealthy yellows.
• In Pompilard, a capitally drawn figure, many New-Yorkers will recognize an original, faithfully limned.
• Colette, as delicately and distinctly limned in the successive chapters, might have formed a figure in the fifteenth-century group, drawn by a home-inspired artist.
• The figures of the workers were limned grotesquely against the ruddy background with a startling and unreal absence of detail.
• In that blue glow the derelict took form, grim, ghostly, heaving, as a spirit picture might be thrown upon a black cloth, every detail limned in filmy perfection.
• Of course I could have been in the hole no longer than fifteen seconds, but it seemed hours, and every move is deep limned upon my memory.
• She could see now and then tall treetops limned against the starlit sky.
• Scattered through the libraries of Europe are the priceless manuscripts limned by Irish scribes.
• Here are two of them, however, which have limned themselves with the distinctness of the camera obscura on the page of a chronicler of trifles.
• The whole picture is limned against the brilliant blue of the Colorado sky, and stands out sharp and clear, one vivid block of color distinctly defined against the other.
• A blow comes, such as the present war, and seems to shatter the whole picture which so many hands have limned and so many eyes admired.
• The soft snow on the lawn gave him a surer footing and he crept after Wilton, who was carefully pursuing his way toward a house whose gables were faintly limned against the sky.
• He crawled over the snow until he reached a large tree whose boughs, sharply limned against the stars, brushed the eaves of the house.
• This girl, seeking nothing for herself, refusing anything he could offer, had held up a mirror in which he saw himself limned against dancing, mocking shadows.
• There were faces, shadows, moving images and pictures, scenes of the war limned against the blackness.
• You have a vision limned against the mystery of the future.
• Afar lie shadow-lands, high mist-hidden hills, mountains boldly limned, yet shading to the sky, faint and unreal.
• Written on the scroll of history, limned on the page of law, we find the words of the fathers, sane and helpful thought and good counsel.

Similar words containing LIMN without suffix ed

limn6 limns7 limner8 limnic10 dislimn10 limners9 limning10 dislimns11 limnaeid11 limnetic12 slimness10 dislimned13 epilimnia13 limnaeids12 limnology15 dislimning14 epilimnion14 hypolimnia20 limnologic15 slimnesses12 epilimnions15 hypolimnion21 limnologies14 limnologist14 paralimnion15 slimnastics15 hypolimnions22 limnological17 limnologists15 limnophilous19 paralimnions16 bathylimnetic25 limnologically22 palaeolimnology23

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