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J. S. Mill.

2. That which limits; a restriction; a qualification; a restraining condition, defining circumstance, or qualifying conception; as, limitations of thought.

The cause of error is ignorance what restraints and limitations all principles have in regard of the matter whereunto they are applicable.

Hooker.

3. A certain precinct within which friars were allowed to beg, or exercise their functions; also, the time during which they were permitted to exercise their functions in such a district. Chaucer. Latimer.

4. A limited time within or during which something is to be done.

You have stood your limitation, and the tribunes Endue you with the people's voice.

Shak.

5. (Law) (a) A certain period limited by statute after which the claimant shall not enforce his claims by suit. (b) A settling of an estate or property by specific rules. (c) A restriction of power; as, a constitutional limitation. Wharton. Bouvier.

To know one's own limitations, to know the reach and limits of one's abilities. A. R. Wallace.

Lim"it*ed (lm"t*d), a. Confined within limits; narrow; circumscribed; restricted; as, our views of nature are very limited.

Limited company, a company in which the liability of each shareholder is limited by the number of shares he has taken, so that he can not be called on to contribute beyond the amount of his shares. [Eng.] Mozley & W.

Lim"it*ed*ly, adv. With limitation.

Lim"it*ed*ness, n. The quality of being limited.

Lim"it*er (-r), n. 1. One who, or that which, limits.

2. A friar licensed to beg within certain bounds, or whose duty was limited to a certain district. [Formerly written also limitour.] Chaucer.

A limitour of the Gray Friars, in the time of his limitation, preached many times, and had but one sermon at all times.

Latimer.

Lim"it*ive (-v), a. Involving a limit; as, a limitive law, one designed to limit existing powers. [R.]

Lim"it*less, a. Having no limits; unbounded; boundless. Davies (Wit's Pilgr.).

Lim"it*our (-r), n. See Limiter, 2.

Lim"mer (-mr), a. Limber. [Obs.] Holland.

Lim"mer, n. [F. limier. See Leamer.] 1. A limehound; a leamer.

2. (Zoöl.) A mongrel, as a cross between the mastiff and hound.

3. A low, base fellow; also, a prostitute. [Scot.]

Thieves, limmers, and broken men of the Highlands.

Sir W. Scott.

4. (Naut.) A man rope at the side of a ladder.