LIMB
\lˈɪm], \lˈɪm], \l_ˈɪ_m]\
Definitions of LIMB
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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any projection that is thought to resemble an arm; "the arm of the record player"; "an arm of the sea"; "a branch of the sewer"
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any of the main branches arising from the trunk or a bough of a tree
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either of the two halves of a bow from handle to tip; "the upper limb of the bow"
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one of the jointed appendages of an animal used for locomotion or grasping: arm; leg; wing; flipper
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(astronomy) the circumferential edge of the apparent disc of the sun or the moon or a planet
By Princeton University
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any projection that is thought to resemble an arm; "the arm of the record player"; "an arm of the sea"; "a branch of the sewer"
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any of the main branches arising from the trunk or a bough of a tree
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either of the two halves of a bow from handle to tip; "the upper limb of the bow"
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one of the jointed appendages of an animal used for locomotion or grasping: arm; leg; wing; flipper
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(astronomy) the circumferential edge of the apparent disc of the sun or the moon or a planet
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A part of a tree which extends from the trunk and separates into branches and twigs; a large branch.
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An arm or a leg of a human being; a leg, arm, or wing of an animal.
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A thing or person regarded as a part or member of, or attachment to, something else.
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An elementary piece of the mechanism of a lock.
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To supply with limbs.
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To dismember; to tear off the limbs of.
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A border or edge, in certain special uses.
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The border or upper spreading part of a monopetalous corolla, or of a petal, or sepal; blade.
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The border or edge of the disk of a heavenly body, especially of the sun and moon.
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The graduated margin of an arc or circle, in an instrument for measuring angles.
By Oddity Software
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A part of a tree which extends from the trunk and separates into branches and twigs; a large branch.
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An arm or a leg of a human being; a leg, arm, or wing of an animal.
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A thing or person regarded as a part or member of, or attachment to, something else.
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An elementary piece of the mechanism of a lock.
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To supply with limbs.
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To dismember; to tear off the limbs of.
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A border or edge, in certain special uses.
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The border or upper spreading part of a monopetalous corolla, or of a petal, or sepal; blade.
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The border or edge of the disk of a heavenly body, especially of the sun and moon.
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The graduated margin of an arc or circle, in an instrument for measuring angles.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William R. Warner
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A jointed part in animals: a projecting part: a branch of a tree.
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To supply with limbs: to tear off the limbs.
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An edge or border, as of the sun, etc.: the edge of a sextant, etc.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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An articulated extremity of the human body or an animal, as the arm or leg; a branch of a tree; a member.
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An edge or border, as of the sun, &c.; the border of a monopetalous corolla; the graduated edge of a sextant.
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To supply with limbs; to dismember. Limb of the law, a member of the legal profession.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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The part of an animal joined, as it were, to the body, as an arm or a leg; the branch of a tree; in bot., the blade of the leaf; the broad part of a sepal or petal.
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To supply with limbs; to dismember.
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The border or edge of the disc of a heavenly body, particularly of the sun or moon; the edge of a graduated circle in an instrument.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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A member of an animal body jointed to the trunk; a member as distinguished from the trunk and head, e. g., a leg or an arm.
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See limbus.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. [Anglo-Saxon] Edge or border; extremity;— an extremity of the human body, as the arm or leg; a member the branch of a Lily, tree larger than a twig -the edge of the disk of a heavenly body, especially of the sun and moon the edge of a graduated circle in an instrument.
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