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limb

LIMB, n. lim. [L. limbus, edge or border, extremity; limes, limit. The sense of limb is from shooting or extending.]

1. Edge or border. This is the proper signification of the word; but in this sense it is limited chiefly to technical use, and applied to the sun, moon, or a star, to a leaf, to a quadrant, &c. We say, the sun or moon is eclipsed on its northern limb. But we never say, the limb of a board, of a tract of land or water, &c.

2. In anatomy, and in common use, an extremity of the human body; a member; a projecting part; as the arm or leg; that is, a shoot.

3. The branch of a tree; applied only to a branch of some size, and not to a small twig.

4. In botany, the border or upper spreading part of a monopetalous corol.


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LIMB, n. lim. [L. limbus, edge or border, extremity; limes, limit. The sense of limb is from shooting or extending.]

1. Edge or border. This is the proper signification of the word; but in this sense it is limited chiefly to technical use, and applied to the sun, moon, or a star, to a leaf, to a quadrant, &c. We say, the sun or moon is eclipsed on its northern limb. But we never say, the limb of a board, of a tract of land or water, &c.

2. In anatomy, and in common use, an extremity of the human body; a member; a projecting part; as the arm or leg; that is, a shoot.

3. The branch of a tree; applied only to a branch of some size, and not to a small twig.

4. In botany, the border or upper spreading part of a monopetalous corol.

LIMB, n. [lim; Sax. lim; Dan. and Sw. lem; L. limbus, edge or border, extremity; limes, limit, coinciding perhaps with W. llem, llym, sharp, or llamu, to leap. The sense of limb is from shooting or extending.]

  1. Edge or border. This is the proper signification of the word; but in this sense it is limited chiefly to technical use, and applied to the sun, moon, or a star, to leaf, to quadrant, &c. We say, the sun or moon is eclipsed on its northern limb. But we never say, the limb of a board, of a tract of land or water, &c.
  2. In anatomy, and in common use, an extremity of the human body; a member; a projecting part; as the arm or leg; that is, a shoot.
  3. The branch of a tree; applied only to a branch of same size, and not to a small twig.
  4. In botany, the border or upper spreading part of a mono-petalous corol. – Martyn.

LIMB, v.t. [lim.]

  1. To supply with limbs.
  2. To dismember; to tear off the limbs.

Limb
  1. A part of a tree which extends from the trunk and separates into branches and twigs; a large branch.
  2. To supply with limbs.

    [R.] Milton.
  3. A border or edge, in certain special uses.

    (a) (Bot.)
  4. An arm or a leg of a human being; a leg, arm, or wing of an animal.

    A second Hector for his grim aspect,
    And large proportion of his strong-knit limbs.     Shak.

  5. To dismember; to tear off the limbs of.
  6. A thing or person regarded as a part or member of, or attachment to, something else.

    Shak.

    That little limb of the devil has cheated the gallows. Sir W. Scott.

  7. An elementary piece of the mechanism of a lock.

    Limb of the law, a lawyer or an officer of the law. [Colloq.] Landor.

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Limb

LIMB, noun lim. [Latin limbus, edge or border, extremity; limes, limit. The sense of limb is from shooting or extending.]

1. Edge or border. This is the proper signification of the word; but in this sense it is limited chiefly to technical use, and applied to the sun, moon, or a star, to a leaf, to a quadrant, etc. We say, the sun or moon is eclipsed on its northern limb But we never say, the limb of a board, of a tract of land or water, etc.

2. In anatomy, and in common use, an extremity of the human body; a member; a projecting part; as the arm or leg; that is, a shoot.

3. The branch of a tree; applied only to a branch of some size, and not to a small twig.

4. In botany, the border or upper spreading part of a monopetalous corol.

LIMB, verb transitive lim.

1. To supply with limbs.

2. To dismember; to tear off the limbs.

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