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limb

verb

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noun

  1. moved by muscles paired appendages, which consist of different members
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /lɪm/

name

Etymology: Variant of Lum.

  1. A surname.

noun

Etymology: From Latin limbus (“border”).

  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.

verb

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.

  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.