/lim"neuhr/ , n.
1. a person who paints or draws.
2. an itinerant painter of 18th-century America who usually had little formal training.
3. a person who describes or depicts in words: an essayist known as a fine limner of prominent people and their careers.
4. an illuminator of medieval manuscripts.
[ 1350-1400; ME lymnour, lymynour; see LIMN, -OR 2 , -ER 1 ]