limp

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To walk lamely, especially with irregularity, as if favoring one leg.
2. v. To move or proceed haltingly or unsteadily: The project limped along with half its previous funding.
3. n. An irregular, jerky, or awkward gait.
4. adj. Lacking or having lost rigidity, as of structure or substance.
5. adj. Lacking strength or firmness; weak or spiritless; a limp handshake; limp opposition.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. Lacking stiffness or firmness; weak in fiber or texture; flexible; limber; flaccid: applied to things or persons.
2. Lacking stability or firmness of character; inefficient; incapable.
3. To be inadequate or unsatisfactory.
4. To move with a halting or jerky step; walk lame: often used figuratively: as, a limping argument; limping verses.
5. n. A halting step; the act of limping.
6. To happen; befall; chance.
7. To come upon; meet.
8. n. A scraper of board or sheet-iron shaped like half the head of a small cask, used for scraping the ore off the sieve in the operation of hand-jigging.

Wiktionary

1. v. intransitive To walk lamely, as if favouring one leg.
2. v. intransitive, figuratively, of a vehicle To travel with a malfunctioning system of propulsion
3. v. poker slang, intransitive To call.
4. n. An irregular, jerky or awkward gait
5. n. A scraper for removing poor ore or refuse from the sieve
6. v. intransitive To happen; befall; chance.
7. v. transitive To come upon; meet.
8. adj. flaccid; flabby, as flesh.
9. adj. lacking stiffness; flimsy; as, a limp cravat.
10. adj. not erect
11. adj. of a man not having an erect penis
12. adj. physically weak
13. v. intransitive To be inadequate or unsatisfactory.
14. n. A scraper of board or sheet-iron shaped like half the head of a small cask, used for scraping the ore off the sieve in the operation of hand-jigging.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To halt; to walk lamely. Also used figuratively.
2. n. A halt; the act of limping.
3. n. (Ore Washing) A scraper for removing poor ore or refuse from the sieve.
4. adj. Flaccid; flabby, as flesh.
5. adj. Lacking stiffness; flimsy.

WordNet 3.0

1. adj. not firm
2. v. proceed slowly or with difficulty
3. n. the uneven manner of walking that results from an injured leg
4. adj. lacking in strength or firmness or resilience
5. v. walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury