limb /lɪm/noun 9verb 3forms 3phrases 1 noun9 •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: — 1587 •A branch of a tree. •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 •Ellipsis of limb of Satan (“a wicked or mischievous child”). •The apparent visual edge of a celestial body.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°. — 2015 •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.The corolla limb of the moonvine Calonyction aculeatum is normally undivided. — 1945 •The graduated edge of a circle or arc. •An elementary piece of the mechanism of a lock. verb3 •To remove the limbs from (an animal or tree).They limbed the felled trees before cutting them into logs. •To thoroughly defeat an opponent in fisticuffsBrian limbed Roger over at the Beahive last night. •To supply with limbs.Innumerous living creatures , perfect forms , Limb'd and full grown: out of the ground uprose — 1667 formslimbed · limbing · limbs Phrases with limb out on a limbIn a risky, precarious, daring, or uncompromising position, especially one outside of the mainstream; vulnerable.
