limb
Definitions
- A surname.
- A major appendage of human or animal, used for locomotion (such as an arm, leg or wing).
- member (one who belongs to a group)
- The apparent visual edge of a celestial body.
- limb (a major appendage of a person or animal)
- A branch of a tree.
- The graduated edge of a circle or arc.
- penis
- The part of the bow, from the handle to the tip.
- The border or upper spreading part of a monopetalous corolla, or of a petal or sepal; blade.
- An elementary piece of the mechanism of a lock.
- A thing or person regarded as a part or member of, or attachment to, something else.
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Ellipsis of limb of Satan (“a wicked or mischievous child”). abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
Equivalents
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Examples
“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:”
“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 elfin limbs.”
“That little limb of the devil has cheated the gallows.”
“the solar limb”
“At 4h 57m 9s by my chronometer, (see⟳ Schedule⟳ B,) I observed with my telescope a small black speck on the preceding limb of the sun's disk, at the precise point⟳ to which I had been for some minutes directing my attention.”
“Chandrasekhar (1946a, b) predicted that the limb of a star will be polarized, because photons scattered at the limb and toward the observer experience⟳ a scattering angle of Θ ≈ 90°.”
“The corolla limb of the moonvine Calonyction aculeatum is normally undivided.”
CEFR level
C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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