Pronunciations
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/lɪm/
Noun
A major appendage of human or animal, used for locomotion (such as an arm, leg or wing).
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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.
A branch of a tree.
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The part of the bow, from the handle to the tip.
An elementary piece of the mechanism of a lock.
A thing or person regarded as a part or member of, or attachment to, something else.
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That little limb of the devil has cheated the gallows.
Verb
To remove the limbs from (an animal or tree).
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They limbed the felled trees before cutting them into logs.
To supply with limbs.
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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.
To thoroughly defeat an opponent in fisticuffs
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Brian limbed Roger over at the Beahive last night.
Noun
The apparent visual edge of a celestial body.
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the solar limb
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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.
Chandrasekhar (1946a, b) predicted that the limb of a star will be polarized, because photons scattered at the limb and toward the observer experience a scattering angle of Θ ≈ 90°.
The graduated edge of a circle or arc.
The border or upper spreading part of a monopetalous corolla, or of a petal or sepal; blade.
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The corolla limb of the moonvine Calonyction aculeatum is normally undivided.
Noun
one of the jointed appendages of an animal used for locomotion or grasping: arm, leg, wing, flipper
any of the main branches arising from the trunk or a bough of a tree
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(astronomy) the circumferential edge of the apparent disc of the sun or the moon or a planet
either of the two halves of a bow from handle to tip
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the upper limb of the bow
the graduated arc that is attached to an instrument for measuring angles
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the limb of the sextant
any projection that is thought to resemble a human arm
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the arm of the record player
an arm of the sea
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a branch of the sewer