Pronunciation: (lim'nur), [key]
1. a person who paints or draws.
2. an itinerant painter of 18th-century America who usually had little formal training.
3. a person who describes or depicts in words: an essayist known as a fine limner of prominent people and their careers.
4. an illuminator of medieval manuscripts.
Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.