Definition of limb

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

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Beriberi :: Beriberi (n.) An acute disease occurring in India, characterized by multiple inflammatory changes in the nerves, producing great muscular debility, a painful rigidity of the limbs, and cachexy..
Regeneration :: Regeneration (n.) The reproduction of a part which has been removed or destroyed; re-formation; -- a process especially characteristic of a many of the lower animals; as, the regeneration of lost feelers, limbs, and claws by spiders and crabs..
Bittersweet :: Bittersweet (n.) A climbing shrub, with oval coral-red berries (Solanum dulcamara); woody nightshade. The whole plant is poisonous, and has a taste at first sweetish and then bitter. The branches are the officinal dulcamara..
Flagginess :: Flagginess (n.) The condition of being flaggy; laxity; limberness.
Limb :: Limb (n.) The border or edge of the disk of a heavenly body, especially of the sun and moon..
Trail :: Trail (v. i.) To grow to great length, especially when slender and creeping upon the ground, as a plant; to run or climb..
Clamber :: Clamber (v. i.) To climb with difficulty, or with hands and feet; -- also used figuratively..
Crampon :: Crampon (n.) An a/rial rootlet for support in climbing, as of ivy..
Scramble :: Scramble (n.) The act of scrambling, climbing on all fours, or clambering..
Scandent :: Scandent (a.) Climbing.
Circumduction :: Circumduction (n.) The rotation of a limb round an imaginary axis, so as to describe a concial surface..
Creeper :: Creeper (n.) A spurlike device strapped to the boot, which enables one to climb a tree or pole; -- called often telegraph creepers..
Flexion :: Flexion (n.) The bending of a limb or joint; that motion of a joint which gives the distal member a continually decreasing angle with the axis of the proximal part; -- distinguished from extension.
Lith :: Lith (n.) A joint or limb; a division; a member; a part formed by growth, and articulated to, or symmetrical with, other parts..
Branch :: Branch (n.) A shoot or secondary stem growing from the main stem, or from a principal limb or bough of a tree or other plant..
Abduct :: Abduct (v. t.) To draw away, as a limb or other part, from its ordinary position..
Arm :: Arm (n.) A limb, or locomotive or prehensile organ, of an invertebrate animal..
Lame :: Lame (superl.) To some degree disabled by reason of the imperfect action of a limb; crippled; as, a lame man..
Thewed :: Thewed (a.) Furnished with thews or muscles; as, a well-thewed limb..
Rampant :: Rampant (v.) Ascending; climbing; rank in growth; exuberant.
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