limb

UK /lɪm/ US /lɪm/
noun 8verb 3name 1

Definitions

noun

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:

Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with […] on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like withered elfin limbs.

2

A branch of a tree.

3

The part of the bow, from the handle to the tip.

4

An elementary piece of the mechanism of a lock.

5

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.

verb

1

To remove the limbs from (an animal or tree).

They limbed the felled trees before cutting them into logs.

2

To supply with limbs.

Innumerous living creatures , perfect forms , Limb'd and full grown: out of the ground uprose

Man was not made so large limbed and robust but that he must seek to narrow his world and wall in a space such as fitted him.

3

To thoroughly defeat an opponent in fisticuffs

Brian limbed Roger over at the Beahive last night.

noun

1

The apparent visual edge of a celestial body.

the solar limb

At 4h 57m 9s by my chronometer, (see Schedule B,) I observed with my telescope a small black speck on the preceding limb of the sun's disk, at the precise point to which I had been for some minutes directing my attention.

2

The graduated edge of a circle or arc.

3

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.

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