limb

1. 1

   A major appendage of human or animal, used for locomotion (such as an arm, leg or wing).

   • UUhoſe hands are made to gripe a warlike Lance— Their ſhoulders broad, for complet armour fit, Their lims more large and of a bigger ſize Than all the brats yſprong from Typhons loins:
2. 2

   A branch of a tree.

3. 3

   The part of the bow, from the handle to the tip.

4. 4

   An elementary piece of the mechanism of a lock.

5. 5

   A thing or person regarded as a part or member of, or attachment to, something else.

   • That little limb of the devil has cheated the gallows.
6. 6

   Ellipsis of limb of Satan (“a wicked or mischievous child”).abbreviationalt-ofellipsis

syn. limb

1. 1

   To remove the limbs from (an animal or tree).transitive

   • They limbed the felled trees before cutting them into logs.
2. 2

   To supply with limbs.transitive

   • 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. 3

   To thoroughly defeat an opponent in fisticuffstransitive

   • Brian limbed Roger over at the Beahive last night.

syn. delimb

1. 1

   The apparent visual edge of a celestial body.

   • the solar limb
2. 2

   The graduated edge of a circle or arc.

3. 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.

syn. limb