Crippled or disabled in a limb, or otherwise injured so as to be unsound and impaired in strength; as a lame arm or leg, or a person lame in one leg.

Imperfect; not satisfactory; as a lame excuse.

Hobbling; not smooth; as numbers in verse.

To make lame; to cripple or disable; to render imperfect and unsound; as, to lame an arm or a leg.