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Limb
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- 1 A surname.
- 1 A major appendage of human or animal, used for locomotion (such as an arm, leg or wing).
"UUhoſe hands are made to gripe a warlike Lance— Their ſhoulders broad, for complet armour fit, Their lims more large and of a bigger ſize Than all the brats yſprong from Typhons loins:"
- 2 The apparent visual edge of a celestial body.
"the solar limb"
- 3 any projection that is thought to resemble a human arm wordnet
- 4 A branch of a tree.
- 5 The graduated edge of a circle or arc.
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- 6 the graduated arc that is attached to an instrument for measuring angles wordnet
- 7 The part of the bow, from the handle to the tip.
- 8 The border or upper spreading part of a monopetalous corolla, or of a petal or sepal; blade.
"The corolla limb of the moonvine Calonyction aculeatum is normally undivided."
- 9 either of the two halves of a bow from handle to tip wordnet
- 10 An elementary piece of the mechanism of a lock.
- 11 one of the jointed appendages of an animal used for locomotion or grasping: arm, leg, wing, flipper wordnet
- 12 A thing or person regarded as a part or member of, or attachment to, something else.
"That little limb of the devil has cheated the gallows."
- 13 (astronomy) the circumferential edge of the apparent disc of the sun or the moon or a planet wordnet
- 14 Ellipsis of limb of Satan (“a wicked or mischievous child”). abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
- 15 any of the main branches arising from the trunk or a bough of a tree wordnet
- 1 To remove the limbs from (an animal or tree). transitive
"They limbed the felled trees before cutting them into logs."
- 2 To supply with limbs. transitive
"Innumerous living creatures , perfect forms , Limb'd and full grown: out of the ground uprose"
- 3 To thoroughly defeat an opponent in fisticuffs transitive
"Brian limbed Roger over at the Beahive last night."
Etymology
From Middle English lyme, lim, from Old English lim (“limb, branch”), from Proto-West Germanic *limu, from Proto-Germanic *limuz (“branch, limb”). Cognate with Old Norse limr (“limb”). The spelling with the silent unetymological -b first arose in the late 1500s. Compare crumb.
From Middle English lyme, lim, from Old English lim (“limb, branch”), from Proto-West Germanic *limu, from Proto-Germanic *limuz (“branch, limb”). Cognate with Old Norse limr (“limb”). The spelling with the silent unetymological -b first arose in the late 1500s. Compare crumb.
From Latin limbus (“border”).
Variant of Lum.
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