lame

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. adj. Disabled so that movement, especially walking, is difficult or impossible: Lame from the accident, he walked with a cane. A lame wing kept the bird from flying.
2. adj. Marked by pain or rigidness: a lame back.
3. adj. Weak and ineffectual; unsatisfactory: a lame attempt to apologize; lame excuses for not arriving on time.
4. v. To cause to become lame; cripple.
5. n. A thin metal plate, especially one of the overlapping steel plates in medieval armor.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. Crippled or disabled by injury to or defect of a limb or limbs; specifically, walking with difficulty; halting; limping: as, a lame man or horse.
2. Inefficient from injury or defect; unsound or impaired in strength; crippled: as, a lame leg or arm.
3. Figuratively, imperfect; lacking finish or completeness; defective in quality or quantity; halting; insufficient; hobbling: as, lame verse; lame rimes; a lame excuse.
4. To make lame; cripple or disable; render imperfect or unsound: as, to lame an antagonist; to lame an arm or a leg.
5. n. Earthenware.
6. n. A broken piece of earthenware; a potsherd.
7. Earthen: used of pottery: as, a lame pig (an earthen vessel).
8. n. In armor, a plate of metal.

Wiktionary

1. n. A lamina.
2. n. in the plural A set of joined, overlapping metal plates.
3. v. obsolete To shine.
4. adj. Unable to walk properly because of a problem with one's feet or legs.
5. adj. Moving with pain or difficulty on account of injury, defect or temporary obstruction of a function.
6. adj. by extension Hobbling; limping; inefficient; imperfect.
7. adj. slang Unconvincing or unbelievable.
8. adj. slang Failing to be cool, funny, interesting or relevant.
9. v. transitive to cause a person or animal to become lame

GNU Webster's 1913

1. adj. Moving with pain or difficulty on account of injury, defect, or temporary obstruction of a function.
2. adj. To some degree disabled by reason of the imperfect action of a limb; crippled.
3. adj. Hence, hobbling; limping; inefficient; imperfect.
4. v. To make lame.

WordNet 3.0

1. adj. disabled in the feet or legs
2. v. deprive of the use of a limb, especially a leg
3. n. someone who doesn't understand what is going on
4. n. a fabric interwoven with threads of metal
5. adj. pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness