# Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/lim
### limlim

* 臨lîm54013111
* Regarding or visiting an inferior; to look down on sympathizingly; to bless or curse by coming to; commencing, at the point of, about; during, whilst; time of meeting, and it thus sometimes makes the present participle; like; to imitate; the 19th diagram, meaning great.

#### kàng-lîm;

    to descend, (as a god from the heavens to the earth).

#### khíong-ùi sĭ sîn-sien lîm hûam;

    perhaps it is an angel come down among men.

#### lîm cong hun-hù;

    when at the point of death gave these commands.

#### lîm sí, hôk seⁿ;

    when at the point of death was resuscitated.

#### lîm khṳ̀ kâi sî-hāu kìa-hṳ̄ cìeⁿ-seⁿ tàⁿ;

    just as he was departing he entrusted this message to me.

#### lîm châi bó̤ kó-tit;

    when getting rich, do not become unscrupulous.

#### lṳ́ thóiⁿ cía jī sĭ lîm sĭm-mîh thiap kâi?

    What copy do you think has been followed in these letters?

#### i sía jī múi jît lîm thiap;

    in writing he daily writes more like the copy.

#### lîm lāng bô̤ kó míen;

    when entering upon difficulties ​do not inconsiderately avoid them.

#### i lîm cèng cōi, ŭ lwt-lêh;

    he has great experience, having been near many diseased people.

#### hun-hù i mó̤ lîm sî gō sṳ̄;

    charge him not to let the business fail of accomplishment through delay at the moment for action.

#### lîm-kip, sĭeⁿ bô̤ kòi;

    so near it that I thought there was no help for it.
* 林lîm540754
* A forest, a wood, a grove, a clump of trees; a group or company.

#### chīu lîm;

    groves, copses.

#### suaⁿ lîm;

    wooded glens.

#### tek lîm;

    a bamboo copse.

#### gṳ̄ lîm;

    the imperial guard.

#### hâng-lîm;

    the Imperial Academy.

#### tôk bâk put sêng lîm;

    a single tree does not make a forest.

#### bûn-lîm;

    the literary body.

#### chim lîm;

    the depths of the forest.
* 滿lîm5758511
* Full to the brim; replete.

#### i cē íe cū íe kàu lîm-lîm;

    when he does dip it up, he dips it full to the very brim.

#### chō̤ kàu nĕ lîm-lîm, mn̄g lṳ́ cò̤-nî khîeh?

    If you fill it to the very brim, then bow will you manage to carry it?

#### m̄ tîeh màiⁿ chō̤ kàu khah lîm?

    How is it that you know no better than to fill it too full?
* 簷lîm108611813
* The eaves.

#### lîm-cîⁿ;

    the eaves of a roof.

#### khīa tŏ̤ lîm-cíⁿ ĕ;

    standing under the eaves.

#### lîm-koi-cîeh;

    the stone underneath the eaves, bordering the open court.

#### lîm-cíⁿ kha;

    close to the eaves.
* 痳lîm5401048
* A disease of the bladder or ureter.

#### sua lîm;

    gravel in the bladder.

#### cîeh lîm;

    stone in the bladder.

#### hueh lîm;

    bloody urine.

#### ko̤ lîm;

    stringy or ropy urine.

#### pêh lîm;

    white deposits in the urine.

#### jīe lîm;

    strangury.

#### ngŏ lîm;

    five sorts of urinary ailments.
* 霖lîm5401738
* A continuous rain of three days.

#### chiu thiⁿ-sî kâi kú hŏ, kìeⁿ-co̤ chiu-lîm;

    the long rains of autumn are called the rainy season.

#### kam lîm;

    a timely rain.
* 淋漓lîm-lî516
* The pattering of rain or hail.

#### tōa hŏ lîm-lî;

    the rain pours steadily down.

#### sía kàu lîm-lîm-lî-lî;

    writing steadily and rapidly, the letters dropping from his pen like falling rain.
* 掄lĭm565648
* To pick up or out; to take up.

#### lĭm khûn-thâu phah nâng;

    lifted his fist and struck some one.

#### lĭm ki to̤ cū tok khṳ̀;

    took his knife and chopped it off.

#### cŏ̤-ngŵn lĭm tieh chíu;

    the senior-wrangler of the empire is held in a close grasp.

#### chíu tèng lĭm ki chieⁿ;

    took a spear in his hand.
* 執lĭm67328
* To hold in the hand; to maintain hold.

#### bô̤ kò̤ hó̤ lĭm chíu;

    there is no place where one can get a hold on it.

#### lĭm pit tîeh cò̤-nî lĭm cìaⁿ hó̤?

    In holding the pen what is the correct manner of holding it?

#### lĭm hó̤-hó̤, màiⁿ ka-lâuh;

    hold it carefully and don't drop it.

#### lĭm kín-kín;

    grasp it firmly.

#### nŏ̤ ciah chíu lĭm m̄ bûa;

    cannot reach around it with both hands.

#### nŏ̤ nâng sie lĭm chíu;

    the two grasped each other's hands.