| Limb |
n. |
A part of a tree which extends from the trunk and separates into branches and twigs; a large branch. |
| Limb |
n. |
An arm or a leg of a human being; a leg, arm, or wing of an animal. |
| Limb |
n. |
A thing or person regarded as a part or member of, or attachment to, something else. |
| Limb |
n. |
An elementary piece of the mechanism of a lock. |
| Limb |
v. t. |
To supply with limbs. |
| Limb |
v. t. |
To dismember; to tear off the limbs of. |
| Limb |
n. |
A border or edge, in certain special uses. |
| Limb |
n. |
The border or upper spreading part of a monopetalous corolla, or of a petal, or sepal; blade. |
| Limb |
n. |
The border or edge of the disk of a heavenly body, especially of the sun and moon. |
| Limb |
n. |
The graduated margin of an arc or circle, in an instrument for measuring angles. |
| Limbat |
n. |
A cooling periodical wind in the Isle of Cyprus, blowing from the northwest from eight o'clock, A. M., to the middle of the day or later. |
| Limbate |
a. |
Bordered, as when one color is surrounded by an edging of another. |
| Limbec |
n. |
An alembic; a still. |
| Limbec |
v. t. |
To distill. |
| Limbed |
a. |
Having limbs;
much used in composition; as, large-limbed; short-limbed. |
| Limber |
n. |
The shafts or thills of a wagon or carriage. |
| Limber |
n. |
The detachable fore part of a gun carriage, consisting of two wheels, an axle, and a shaft to which the horses are attached. On top is an ammunition box upon which the cannoneers sit. |
| Limber |
n. |
Gutters or conduits on each side of the keelson to afford a passage for water to the pump well. |
| Limber |
v. t. |
To attach to the limber; as, to limber a gun. |
| Limber |
a. |
Easily bent; flexible; pliant; yielding. |
| Limber |
v. t. |
To cause to become limber; to make flexible or pliant. |
| Limbered |
imp. & p. p. |
of Limber |
| Limbering |
p. pr. & vb. n. |
of Limber |
| Limberness |
n. |
The quality or state of being limber; flexibleness. |
| Limbless |
a. |
Destitute of limbs. |
| Limbmeal |
adv. |
Piecemeal. |
| Limbo |
n. |
Alt. of Limbus |
| Limbous |
a. |
With slightly overlapping borders;
said of a suture. |
| Limburg cheese |
|
Alt. of Limburger cheese |
| Limburger |
|
Alt. of Limburger cheese |
| Limburger cheese |
|
A soft cheese made in the Belgian province of Limburg (Limbourg), and usually not eaten until the curing has developed a peculiar and, to most people, unpleasant odor. |
| Limbus |
n. |
An extramundane region where certain classes of souls were supposed to await the judgment. |
| Limbus |
n. |
Hence: Any real or imaginary place of restraint or confinement; a prison; as, to put a man in limbo. |
| Limbus |
n. |
A border or margin; as, the limbus of the cornea. |
