Definition of limb

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Limb (n.) A border or edge, in certain special uses..

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Alpenstock :: Alpenstock (n.) A long staff, pointed with iron, used in climbing the Alps..
Upas :: Upas (n.) A virulent poison used in Java and the adjacent islands for poisoning arrows. One kind, upas antiar, is, derived from upas tree (Antiaris toxicaria). Upas tieute is prepared from a climbing plant (Strychnos Tieute)..
Intrinsic :: Intrinsic (a.) Included wholly within an organ or limb, as certain groups of muscles; -- opposed to extrinsic..
Extremity :: Extremity (n.) One of locomotive appendages of an animal; a limb; a leg or an arm of man.
Bittersweet :: Bittersweet (n.) An American woody climber (Celastrus scandens), whose yellow capsules open late in autumn, and disclose the red aril which covers the seeds; -- also called Roxbury waxwork..
Stump :: Stump (n.) The part of a limb or other body remaining after a part is amputated or destroyed; a fixed or rooted remnant; a stub; as, the stump of a leg, a finger, a tooth, or a broom..
Ichthyopterygium :: Ichthyopterygium (n.) The typical limb, or lateral fin, of fishes..
Vine :: Vine (n.) Hence, a climbing or trailing plant; the long, slender stem of any plant that trails on the ground, or climbs by winding round a fixed object, or by seizing anything with its tendrils, or claspers; a creeper; as, the hop vine; the bean vine; the vines of melons, squashes, pumpkins, and other cucurbitaceous plants..
Gibbon :: Gibbon (n.) Any arboreal ape of the genus Hylobates, of which many species and varieties inhabit the East Indies and Southern Asia. They are tailless and without cheek pouches, and have very long arms, adapted for climbing..
Outlimb :: Outlimb (n.) An extreme member or part of a thing; a limb.
Running :: Running (a.) Extending by a slender climbing or trailing stem; as, a running vine..
Function :: Function (n.) The appropriate action of any special organ or part of an animal or vegetable organism; as, the function of the heart or the limbs; the function of leaves, sap, roots, etc.; life is the sum of the functions of the various organs and parts of the body..
Dexterous :: Dexterous (a.) Ready and expert in the use of the body and limbs; skillful and active with the hands; handy; ready; as, a dexterous hand; a dexterous workman..
Menispermaceous :: Menispermaceous (a.) Pertaining to a natural order (Menispermace/) of climbing plants of which moonseed (Menispermum) is the type.
Mutilation :: Mutilation (n.) The act of mutilating, or the state of being mutilated; deprivation of a limb or of an essential part..
Left :: Left (a.) Of or pertaining to that side of the body in man on which the muscular action of the limbs is usually weaker than on the other side; -- opposed to right, when used in reference to a part of the body; as, the left hand, or arm; the left ear. Also said of the corresponding side of the lower animals..
Limb :: Limb (n.) An arm or a leg of a human being; a leg, arm, or wing of an animal..
Adductor :: Adductor (n.) A muscle which draws a limb or part of the body toward the middle line of the body, or closes extended parts of the body; -- opposed to abductor; as, the adductor of the eye, which turns the eye toward the nose..
Ascend :: Ascend (v. t.) To go or move upward upon or along; to climb; to mount; to go up the top of; as, to ascend a hill, a ladder, a tree, a river, a throne..
Hopbind :: Hopbind (n.) The climbing stem of the hop.
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