limn

To draw or paint; to delineate.

Who then to frail Mortality ſhall truſt, / But limns in Water, or but writes in Duſt.

Then the Painter, according to the pattern of ſome living thing, portraieth [draweth out] the picture groſly; afterward he reſembleth it to the life, and with his pencil limneth it with different painting colors.

To illuminate, as a manuscript; to decorate with gold or some other bright colour.

Some of her [Elizabeth Barton's] Revelations were no better than ſilly Tales: Such was a certain Tale of Mary Magdalen, delivering her a Letter from Heaven, that was limned with golden Letters: which indeed was written by a Monk of St. Auguſtines, Canterbury: and another at Calais.