limbs

Noun (1)

limb (plural limbs)

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:c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC...
2. A branch of a tree.

   Synonyms:

   bough

3. The part of the bow, from the handle to the tip.
4. An elementary piece of the mechanism of a lock.
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.1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London...

Noun (2)

limb (plural limbs)

1. The apparent visual edge of a celestial body.
   • the solar limb

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