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English

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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FromMiddle Englishlyme,lim, fromOld Englishlim(“limb, branch”), fromProto-West Germanic*limu, fromProto-Germanic*limuz(“branch, limb”). Cognate withOld Norselimr(“limb”).

The spelling with the silentunetymological-b first arose in the late 1500s. Comparecrumb.

Noun

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limb (plurallimbs)

  1. A majorappendage of human or animal, used forlocomotion (such as anarm,leg orwing).
    • c.1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe],Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published1592,→OCLC; reprinted asTamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press,1973,→ISBN,Act III, scene iii:
      UUhoſe hands are made to gripe a warlike Lance—
      Their ſhoulders broad, for complet armour fit,
      Theirlims more large and of a bigger ſize
      Than all the brats yſprong fromTyphons loins:
    • 1914 November,Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, inMunsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.:The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published1915,→OCLC, chapter I (Anarchy),pages377–378:
      Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with[…] on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like withered elfinlimbs.
  2. Abranch of a tree.
    Synonym:bough
  3. (archery) The part of thebow, from thehandle to the tip.
  4. An elementary piece of themechanism of alock.
  5. A thing or person regarded as a part or member of, or attachment to, something else.
  6. Ellipsis oflimb of Satan(“a wicked or mischievous child”).
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Translations
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major appendage of human or animal
branch of a tree
part of bow
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Verb

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limb (third-person singular simple presentlimbs,present participlelimbing,simple past and past participlelimbed)

  1. (transitive) Toremove thelimbs from (an animal or tree).
    Theylimbed the felled trees before cutting them into logs.
  2. (transitive) To supply withlimbs.
    • 1667,John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, inParadise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […];[a]nd by Robert Boulter […];[a]nd Matthias Walker, […],→OCLC; republished asParadise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […],1873,→OCLC:
      Innumerous living creatures , perfect forms ,
      Limb'd and full grown: out of the ground uprose
    • 1859,Henry D. Thoreau,Walden:
      Man was not made so largelimbed and robust but that he must seek to narrow his world and wall in a space such as fitted him.
  3. (transitive) To thoroughly defeat an opponent in fisticuffs
    Brianlimbed Roger over at the Beahive last night.
Synonyms
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to remove limbs

Etymology 2

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FromLatinlimbus(“border”).

Noun

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limb (plurallimbs)

  2. (astronomy) Theapparentvisualedge of acelestialbody.
    the solarlimb
    • 1870, United States Naval Observatory,Reports on Observations of the Total Eclipse of the Sun, August, 7, 1869, page174:
      At 4h 57m 9s by my chronometer, (see Schedule B,) I observed with my telescope a small black speck on the precedinglimb of the sun's disk, at the precise point to which I had been for some minutes directing my attention.
    • 2015, Ludmilla Kolokolova, James Hough, Anny-Chantal Levasseur-Regourd,Polarimetry of Stars and Planetary Systems, page449:
      Chandrasekhar (1946a, b) predicted that thelimb of a star will be polarized, because photons scattered at the limb and toward the observer experience a scattering angle of Θ ≈ 90°.
  3. (on a measuring instrument) Thegraduated edge of acircle orarc.
  4. (botany) Theborder or upper spreading part of amonopetalouscorolla, or of apetal orsepal;blade.
    • 1945, “A new form of the moonvineCalonyction aculeatum with divided corolla limb, and length-of-day behavior and flowering of the common form”, inJournal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, volume35, number 2:
      The corollalimb of the moonvineCalonyction aculeatum is normally undivided.
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apparent visual edge
graduated edge
  • Bulgarian:please add this translation if you can
  • French:limbe (fr) m

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limb
arm
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leg
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wing
wing
wing
bow
bow
bow

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