limb
verb
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L17810 on Wikidata ↗noun
- moved by muscles paired appendages, which consist of different members
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /lɪm/
name
Etymology: Variant of Lum.
- A surname.
noun
Etymology: From Latin limbus (“border”).
- 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.”
- 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.
“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.
- To remove the limbs from (an animal or tree).
“They limbed the felled trees before cutting them into logs.”
- 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.”
- To thoroughly defeat an opponent in fisticuffs
“Brian limbed Roger over at the Beahive last night.”