limitation 
the property ! ton" '" I'., HIM iddrf 
i,,,:,i,iti^,i ... i ttmttolfofi 0wr dependent on :i .-.mdition. 
If a coniliti.m iml) is pn-s. rit.f.l without adding a limita- 
tion nvMf, tin- i>n.[> T'V will, if HIM ronilition he valid, re- 
vert to the donor or lii- heirs, 
6f. The particular district in which a limit. T 
or leov;iiijr I'riui' was allowed to beg for alms. 
Ther walketh now the lymytoiir hymself, . . . 
And si-ylh his mutyns am! liis hooly thyngos 
As In 1 p"itli in his ti/in,fli< 
Chaiuxr, Wife of Bath a Tale, 1. 21. 
A llinitoiir of the (irey Kriura, in the course of his linii- 
1ilt,',ii, pl.Mi lii'ii ln;lll> tilm-s, :tl|.l h;l'i lull oni- s.TMl"!. :il 
all times. Ijatimer, .Mine. SeL 
som.- IpnlpitHl have not hud foure sermons these flf- 
teene or sixleenc yeares Bincu Friei-H k-ft tli.-ir limitatifinx. 
I':- liiliu,! SMMIIOII l)f. Ellw. VI., 1662. 
Collateral limitation < limitation dependent on some 
collateral event. Conditional limitation. Meedef. 6. 
Four years' limitation law, 11 mime by whit-lithe United 
.-tales Tenure of ( ittlcM Art (I'nited states f 'ongrew, March, 
1867) is sometimes known. See tenure. Limitation Of 
the Crown Act, an Knglish statute of 1701 (12 and 13 Wm. 
III., e. 2) which vested the succession to the crown in the 
Princess Sophia of Hanover and her heirs, being Protes- 
tants. Also called the Act of Ht'ttleintitt, and the Succe&vm 
to the Crown Act. Statute of limitations. Bee def. 5. 
Words of limitation, words In a deed or will taken as 
indicating the nature or kind of estate the donee ia vested 
with, by stating who shall or may take after him. 
limitative (lim'i-ta-tiv), a. [= F. limitatif = 
Sp. Pg. limitative; as limitate + -ive.] Limiting; 
fixing limits ; restrictive. 
Limitative notions which have a negative value, in so 
far as they keep open a vacant space beyond experience, 
but do not enable us to 1111 that space with any positive 
realities. Kncye. Brit., XVI. 81. 
Limitative judgment, in Iwjic, a name Riven by Kant 
loan affirmative Tnnnltatcd proposition, such as "Every 
man is a non-duff," in order to make up the triad of forms 
affirmative, negative, limitative under the category 
of quality. 
Much acumen has been expended even In recent times 
in vindicating the limitative fonn utjutitjiiifnt*. but I can 
see In it only an unmeaning product of pedantic ingenu- 
ity. NetUcihip, tr. of Lotze'sLoglc, I. 1L 40. 
limited (lim'i-ted), p. a. and n. I. p. a. 1. Con- 
fined within limits ; narrow ; circumscribed. 
After this great Aflront to the King, Is Mountford sent 
over again into Uascony, though with a more limited Au- 
thority. Baker, Chronicles, p. 84. 
2f. Allotted or appointed. 
Ill make so bold to call. 
For 'tis my limited service. 
Shak., Macbeth, U. 3. 66. 
3. In rnilrinidiiii/, restricted as to number of 
cars (weight), or to the carrying of first-class 
passengers: said of a train. Limited adjunct, an 
adjunct that agrees with the subject in regard to some part, 
nature, time, place, or respect. 
Mortality is the absolute adjunct of man, whilst immor- 
tality is the limited ; because man Is not absolutely im- 
mortal, hut only as to the soul. 
Burgendicius, tr. by a Oentleman. 
Limited company, fee, function. See the nouns. 
Limited divorce. See divorce, 1. Limited Jurisdic- 
tion, liability, mall, monarchy, partnership, prob- 
lem, ticket, train, univocatlon, vote, etc. See the 
nouns. 
II. n. A limited express-train: as, the Chicago 
limited. [Colloq., U. 8.] 
Let the great steamship founder, the limited crash 
through a trestle. Pop. Set. Mo., XXX. 577. 
limitedly (lim'i-ted-li), adi\ In a limited man- 
ner or degree ; with limitation. 
The constitution of such nn unity doth Involve the vest- 
Ing some person or some number of persons with a sover- 
eign authority, ... to be managed in a certain manner, 
either absolutely, according to pleasure, or limitedly, ac- 
cording to certain rules prescribed to it. 
Borrow, Unity of the Church. 
limitedness (lim'i-ted-ues), . The state of 
being limited. Johnson. 
limiter (Hm'i-ter), . [< ME. Umitovr, lymi/- 
tnur,<. OF. "limitimr, liniitcur, < ML. liin,l.iii>i: :< 
friar licensed to act within certain limits, lit. 
one who limits, < L. limitare, limit, bound : see 
limit, r.] 1. One who or that which limits or 
confines. 
They so believing, as we hear they do, and yet abolish- 
ing a law so good and moral, the limiter of sin, what are 
they else but contrary to themselves '! 
Millun. Tetrachordon. 
2t. A friar licensed to beg, collect convent-dues, 
preach, or perform other duties within certain 
limits, or in a certain district. 
A Frcre tln-r was, a wantown and a merye, 
A lifmytmtr, a ful solt-nipnt- man. . . . 
Hi was the be>ti> IIML'IHTC in his hous. 
Chaucer, Gen. 1'n.l. to c. T. (ed. Morris), 1. 209. 
Twas but getting a Dispensation from the Pope's Lim- 
iter, or (Jutherer of the Peter-Pence. 
Selden, Table- Talk, p. 101. 
limites, . Plural of limes. 
limit-gage (lim'it-gaj), n. A gage which is used 
for determining whether pieces do not exceed 
or fall below a certain specified range of dimen- 
sion. Car-Builder's Diet. 
3459 
limitless (lim'it-les). a. [< limit + -/<**.] Hav- 
ing in) limits; unbounded ; illimitable. 
Now to tlljXS',1 of ril\ rnllimollWealth, 
Limit!,'** I.OM.IMM, ::iu I .-'.nit- ctwcured. 
.s.i / linriet, VYIttcs Pilgrimage, >lg. H, 4b. 
= Syn. Houn.ll.--s, unlimited, Illimitable, inili.it.-. 
limitourt, " A Middle English form of liuuii-r. 
limit-point (lira 'it-point), . A point on a 
line or other spread, such that within every in- 
terval within which it is contained there lie an 
infinity of points of a given manifold. The 
limit-point may or may not belong to this 
manifold. 
limma (lim'ii), . [LL., < Or. ^el/ifta, a rem- 
nant, somewhat less than half a major tone, a 
mouosemic pause, < /il-riv, leave.] 1. In the 
Pythagorean system of music, the smaller half- 
step or semitone, being the remnant of a per- 
fect fourth after subtracting from it two wnole 
steps or "tones": J -H ()* = |J8- A limma 
and an apotome together made a "tone": tjjj 
X fMi" = I- Also called Pythagorean scmitom 
or hemitone. 2. In pros., a monosemic empty 
time or pause ; a time equal to one mora or 
semeion, existing in the rhythm, but not ex- 
pressed by a syllable in the words. Tin- limma Is 
Indicated by a mark like a caret (A, taken from the 
initial A or A of AciV^a). The pause at the end of a tro- 
chaic dimeter or tetrapody catalectlc (see the lines quoted 
under catalectic) is an example, ~ ~ ~ A, the acat- 
aleetic line bei ng - ~ - ~ - ~ - ~. Also written leimma. 
.See paiae. 
limmer 1 (lim'er), a. An obsolete or dialectal 
fonn of limber 1 . 
They have their feet and legs limmer, wherewith they 
crawl. UoUand. 
limmer- (lim'er), . 1. A dialectal variant of 
limber"*. 2f. Naut., a man-rope at the side of 
a ladder. 
limmer 3 (lim'er), . and o. [Formerly also lym- 
mer; in def. 1 also learner; < ME. limer, limere, 
luntere, < OF. liemier, F. limier, a large dog, lit. a 
dog held in a leash, < OF. linn. F. lien, a leash : 
see lime*, lien 2 . Of. limehound.'] I. n. If. A 
limehound ; in general, a hound ; in a later use, 
a mongrel hound. 
A gret route 
of huntes and eke of foresteres, 
With many relayes and lifmertt. 
Chaucer, Death of Blanche, 1. 362. 
A dogge engendred hetwene an hounde and a mastyve, 
called a li/mmrr or mungrell. 
Elliot, in v. Hybris. (UalliweU.) 
Hence 2. A low, base, or worthless person; 
a scoundrel ; as applied to a woman, in a milder 
sense, a jade. [Isow Scotch and North. Eng.] 
To satlsfle in parte the wrong which had bene offred him 
by those Is/miners and robbers. Uoliruhed, Hist. Ireland. 
The nourlce was a fausc limmer 
As e'er hung on a tree. 
Lamlciit (Child's Ballads, III. 96). 
Thieves, limnierf, and broken men of the Highlands. 
Scott. 
II. t a. Base; low. 
Then the limmer Bcottes . . . burnt my gnddes, and 
made deadly feede on me, and my barnes. 
Bvllein'i Dialogue (167SX p. 3. (HaUiwtU.) 
Hence with 'em, limmer lown, 
Thy vermin and thyself. 
B. Joiuon, Sad Shepherd, ii. 1. 
limmqck (lim'ok), a. [< W/wmer 1 , limber^-with 
substituted term. -oek. ] Very limber. [Prov. 
Eng.] 
limn (lim), r. [< ME. limnen, contr. of fami- 
ne H, an aphetic form of enluminen, < OF. en~ 
luminer, < L. illuminare, infaminare, illuminate, 
burnish, limn: see illumine, illuminate.] I. 
trans. To represent by painting or drawing: 
depict ; delineate ; hence, to describe vividly 
or minutely. [Archaic or poetical.] 
It were impossible 
To limn his passions in such lively colours 
As his own proper sufferance could expreas. 
Ford, Lover's Melancholy, iii. 3. 
ILt intraiw. To practise drawing or painting, 
especially in water-colors. 
Yesterday begun my wifetolearntoKmnof one Browne, 
. . . and by her begiiiDing, upon some eyes, 1 think she 
will do very flue things, and I shall take great delight in it. 
Pepyt, Diary, IL434. 
Limnacea (lim-na'se-S), n. ;/. [XL. (Bron- 
gniart, 1817), for * Limna><icea,<.Limn<i : (i +-<irrn.'\ 
In De Blainville's classification (1825). the first 
of three families of his Pulmnbrancniata, con- 
taining pnlmonate gastropods of the genera 
l.iiiiii/rii. riiii.in.uwl I'lmiorbig in abroad sense: 
the pond-snails, now divided into two families. 
Limnirida' and PhijsitU?. 
limnacean (lim-nu'se-an), a. and . [< Limnacea 
+ -.] I. n. Of of relating to the Limnm-i-ti. 
II. n. A gastropod of the group Limnacea; 
any pond-snail. 
Pond-snail (LtmHfa 
Itagnalu). 
limner 
limnaceous (lim-na'shiuH), n. Karne as limna- 
'I 'HI. 
Limnadia (liin-na'di-8), n. [NL., < Or. 'i/ivr/, a 
pool, lake, marsh.] A genus of phyllopod . 
taceanx, with a thin flexible bivalve carapace of 
oval form, and from 1 s to -<> segments which 
lxar limbs. L, a<ja*i:i is found in pools in New 
England. 
Limnadiacea (lim-na-di-a'se-a), n.jil. [XL.. < 
l.llHiiililllI + -tlfil.] Same us l.iiiiiiinliiilir. 
Limnadiidae (lim-na-di'i-de), n. pi. [XL., < 
/.iiiiiiinliii + -itlie.] \ family of phyllopod or 
branchiopod crustaceans, typified oy the genus 
l.imiiinliii. The test li soft and blvalved, there are nu- 
merous pain of plelopods or iwlinming-feet, the antennn 
are large, the antemmln are tmall, and the large telson hat 
a pair of appendages. In the male one or two pairs of feet 
are chelatc. The leading genera are Limnadia, Limnetu, 
and Ettheria. See EMieriida. 
Limnaea (lim-ne'i). n. [XL., < Ur. ///noior, of 
or from a marsh, < >i/n->/, a pool, lake, marah.] 
A genus of f.imninda; typical 
of the subfamily l.imuitiiiir. in 
these pond-snails the shell Is a Men- 
der dextrad spiral with a large hiKly- 
whorl and aperture, of a light, thin, 
horny texture. There are many spe- 
cies. L. ttaynaUt is a common one. 
They live In ponds, and are almoit ex- 
clusively vegetarian. The genui in 
cosmopolitan, and reaches Its highest 
development in North America. Also 
erroneously Limiiea, Lywnaa, Lym- 
iiea, Limnetu. 
Limnaeana (lim-ne-an'a), n. pi. 
[NL. (Lamarck, 1812)'; < Lim- 
ncea + -ana.] A family of trache- 
lipod mollusks, typified by the 
genus I. inn, a n. containing all 
the limnophilous gastropods, now differentiated 
into the families Limnieida 1 and I'ltysidtt. 
Limnaeidse (lim-ne'i-de), n. pi. [5fL., < Lim- 
iia'ii + ->'rf<r.] A family of basommatopborous 
pnlmonate gastropods, with di- 
versiform tentacles, eyes at 
the inner or posterior bases of 
the tentacles, simple upper jaw 
as well as lateral ones, wide ser- 
riform marginal teeth of the 
radula, and generally a spiral 
shell; the pond-snails. They In- 
habit fresh waters, especially of tem- 
perate and northerly countries, and are 
of cosmopolitan distribution. More 
than 600 species are described, most of 
which belong to the genera Lymnaa, 
Vlannrbin, and An.c>ilun. They are di- 
vided by the shape of the shell into i.imnarinat. Planar- 
I'iiKt . and . t nci/lt inf. 
Limnaeinas (lim-nf-i'ne), n. pi. [NL., < Limncea 
+ -itue.'] The typical subfamily of l.imiiiiiiln; 
includingthose pond-snails whose shell is a long 
spiral. 
limnaeine (lim'ne-in), a. [< Limnteitue.] Of or 
relating to the Limiueinte. 
Limnantheae (lim-nan'the-e), . pi. [NL. (R. 
Brown, 1833), < Limnanthfn + -fce.~\ A tribe of 
plants of the order Geraniarcn; characterized 
by regular flowers with valvate sepals, small 
glands alternating with the petals, and beak- 
less carpels. It embraces the two genera I.iwnanthn 
and Fltrnea, with four species, all natives of >'orth Amer- 
ica. The group was given ordinal rank by some of the 
earlier Iwtanlsts. 
Limnanthemum dim-nan' the-mum). n. [NL. 
(Gmelin, 1760), < Gr. M/ny, i>ool, lake, marsh, 
+ &i*6cfiov.~} A genus of plants of the order 
OflrifMMaod tnbe AlenyaxtHia; distinguished 
by the indehiscent fruit and conlate leaves. 
There are about 2fi specie* (perhaps reducible to 18), dis- 
tributed throughout the temperate and tropical regions 
of the world. They are aquatic perennials, with ******t 
leaveson very long petioles, and yellow flowers. Onebcau- 
tiful species, L. nymphaoida. Is a native of Europe and 
Asia, and goes by the names ot fringtd oaa-tean or ovet- 
bean, /ringed KaterJily, mLter-frinye, and mank-JUnrer. 
(See l3-*n.) L.laeuntman of the eastern United Stale* 
Is the common floating-heart 
Limnanthes (lim-nan'thez), n. [NL. (R. 
Brown, 1833), < Gr. ?i/ivii, apool, lake, marsh, + 
oj^of, a flower.] A genus of plants of the order 
tiirnniarea; type of the tribe Limnanfkeee, and 
distinguished from Flarkea. the other genus of 
the tribe, by having five petals instead of three. 
Limnea, . See l.imna-a. 
limner (lim'ner), n. [< ME. limnore.lymenour, 
liin/iiiniir. short for enluminottr, < OF*, enfami- 
neur, < MI^. illuminator, illuminator, limner: see 
illuminator and limn.'] One who limns : an ar- 
tist or delineator: more especially, one who 
paints portraits or miniatures. [Archaic or 
poetical.] 
Johannes Uanrastre, lymnotir. 
BnotuhOadi(E. E. T. S-). p. 9. 
l.imn 
seen from below 
