Maim

Definition of Maim

Pronunciation: mām

v. t.	1.	To deprive of the use of a limb, so as to render a person in fighting less able either to defend himself or to annoy his adversary. [imp. & p. p. Maimed (māmd);p. pr. & vb. n. Maiming.] By the ancient law of England he that maimed any man whereby he lost any part of his body, was sentenced to lose the like part. - Blackstone.
	2.	To mutilate; to cripple; to injure; to disable; to impair. My late maimed limbs lack wonted might. - Spenser. You maimed the jurisdiction of all bishops. - Shak.
n.	1.	The privation of the use of a limb or member of the body, by which one is rendered less able to defend himself or to annoy his adversary.
	2.	The privation of any necessary part; a crippling; mutilation; injury; deprivation of something essential. See Mayhem. Surely there is more cause to fear lest the want there of be a maim than the use of it a blemish. - Hooker. A noble author esteems it to be a maim in history that the acts of Parliament should not be recited. - Hayward.

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