LIMB

Limb

A limb, or extremity, is a jointed, or prehensile, appendage of the human or other animal body. In the human body, the upper and lower limbs are commonly called the arms and the legs.

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limb

Noun

  1. A major appendage of human or animal, used for locomotion (such as an arm, leg or wing)
  2. A branch of a tree.
  3. The part of the bow, from the handle to the tip.
  4. The border or upper spreading part of a monopetalous corolla, or of a petal or sepal; blade.
  5. The border or edge of the disk of a heavenly body, especially of the sun or moon.
  6. The graduated margin of an arc or circle in an instrument for measuring angles.
  7. An elementary piece of the mechanism of a lock.
  8. A thing or person regarded as a part or member of, or attachment to, something else.

Noun (etymology 2)

  1. The apparent visual edge of a celestial body.
    solar limb
  2. The graduated edge of a circle or arc.

Verb

  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.


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