- Disability - Feebleness - Ineffectualness - Weakness of excuse could mean less - The condition or quality of being lame; as, the lameness
of an excuse or an argument.
- A disadvantage imposed in a sport - Disability - Disadvantage - Golfing equaliser, in theory - Sporting disadvantage - Stumbling block - An allowance of a certain amount of time or distance in
starting, granted in a race to the competitor possessing inferior
advantages; or an additional weight or other hindrance imposed upon the
one possessing superior advantages, in order to equalize, as much as
possible, the chances of success; as, the handicap was five seconds, or
ten pounds, and the like.