Verb (used with object) : The explosion maimed him for life. ,The essay was maimed by deletion of important paragraphs. From Dictionary.com.
"That's all right," he said in his deliberate maimer. From Wordnik.com. [A Town Like Alice]
And send thee to the mainland to Echetus the king, the maimer of all mankind, who will cut off thy nose and ears with the pitiless steel. From Wordnik.com. [Essays and Miscellanies] Reference
On the previous occasion, Pitt had given a silent vote in favour of Hastings, and it was anticipated that he would act in the same maimer on the present. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference
Incidentally, any drug worth your time will probably be a category C, which should stand for, "Could be fine but you'll feel like a selfish baby maimer if it's not.". From Wordnik.com. [Teresa Strasser: I'll Miss You, Toxins] Reference
The Report states that the magazine thief, and the cutter and maimer of newspapers, are characters not as yet altogether unknown to the pleasant acre or two of room appropriated to the readers of such literature. From Wordnik.com. [Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 20, August 13, 1870] Reference
He can take pleasure only from giving or receiving pain, and his mind constantly returns to the schoolroom dividers with which he learned, before graduating to razors at the racetrack, to be a torturer and a maimer. From Wordnik.com. [I'll Be Damned] Reference
Ag please, you cowardly murderer and maimer of innocent people!. From Wordnik.com. [IOL: News] Reference
Soon will we take him over to the mainland, to Echetus the king, the maimer of all mankind. From Wordnik.com. [Book XVIII] Reference
Soon will we take him over to the mainland, to Echetus the king, the maimer of all mankind. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Odyssey] Reference
The maimer of their interment is thus described by Father Hay, in the MS. history already quoted. From Wordnik.com. [The lay of the last minstrel, a poem. With Ballads and lyrical pieces] Reference
She put that extraordinary question without the slightest change in her voice, her face, or her maimer. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman in White] Reference
"Thank, you, sir," replied the other, putting, at the same time, a certain degree of restraint upon his maimer, for he felt conscious of being slightly influenced by liquor. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One] Reference
But, though he was intensely humane, he was absolutely free from mawkishness; and a wife-beater, or a child-torturer, or a cattle-maimer would have had short shrift at his hands. From Wordnik.com. [Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography] Reference
If, indeed, there be grave doubt whether any one of these sacraments has really been administered, or whether the maimer of its administration has been valid, then it may be administered in a conditional form. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference
As the old saying goes” Diarrhea of the mouth; constipation of the ideas” describes our girl Moose maimer Makes me want to vote for her knowing her answer to everything is start a war. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Palin: Obama could win reelection if he ‘played the war card’ and declared ‘war on Iran.’] Reference
A serial horse maimer might have no central file. From Wordnik.com. [Come To Grief]
Davison, "that he cannot yet receive any information who be the States, which he thinketh will be a great maimer unto him in his negotiation. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
SICNS, MEVE, A MfOIVE TO CALL THE SAIp CLAIM IN QUESTION — iAilthietMiunda. tion was fet forth in an ample maimer, to be ip pUKG pity to Maik's nakedaefs — 4) ut the fecrct was. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Laurence Sterne] Reference
» reprrfcntative of the people; but how can it be fiu4 tobcthat, ifthepcoplearenotat) il) crty tochtffe whom they pleafe to reprefent them i bdide, fuph ft maimer g£. From Wordnik.com. [Chrysal: Or, the Adventures of a Guinea. Wherein are Exhibited Views of ...] Reference
Vnto his maimer went. From Wordnik.com. [The Knave of Clubbes] Reference
U The maimer of your fpeaking is full as impor. From Wordnik.com. [Maxims and Moral Reflections] Reference
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