(a) Of persons: crippled in the feet, lame; also, crippled in the hands; disabled by disease, old age, etc.; of an ox: unable to walk; of limbs: crippled; of lips or tongue: unable to speak, mute; also fig.; halt and ~, halting and lame; ~ o fot, lame; ~ on eies, having weak eyes, almost blind; ~ leier, ?lying crippled, helpless in bed; (b) maimed; ?also, disabled by wounds; (c) as noun: lame or crippled person(s; (d) of persons or things: incapacitated, helpless; weak, ineffectual; deficient; ~ of, deficient in (some respect), wanting in; ben ~, to decline in reputation, become obscure [quot.: c1450]; make ~, enfeeble (the wits), damage (a reputation); (e) of language, verse, meter: halting, defective; (f) of a gore in a garment: crooked, ill-cut; (g) in surnames.