lamish
English
Etymology
Adjective
lamish (not comparable)
- Somewhat lame.
- 1855, The new sporting magazine (page 446)
- I was rather puzzled about Wild Dayrell's chance at first, when a big light horse, with "P" on the sheets and a lamish hock, passed me; but I soon found out my error, and joined the cortige of the real Simon Pure.
- 1855, The new sporting magazine (page 446)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “lamish”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)