Definition of limb

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Limb (n.) The graduated margin of an arc or circle, in an instrument for measuring angles..

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Lithesome :: Lithesome (a.) Pliant; limber; flexible; supple; nimble; lissom.
Superior :: Superior (a.) More elevated in place or position; higher; upper; as, the superior limb of the sun; the superior part of an image..
Strappado :: Strappado (n.) A military punishment formerly practiced, which consisted in drawing an offender to the top of a beam and letting him fall to the length of the rope, by which means a limb was often dislocated..
Fingrigo :: Fingrigo (n.) A prickly, climbing shrub of the genus Pisonia. The fruit is a kind of berry..
Turgid :: Turgid (a.) Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent or expansive force; swelled; swollen; bloated; inflated; tumid; -- especially applied to an enlarged part of the body; as, a turgid limb; turgid fruit..
Limb :: Limb (n.) A border or edge, in certain special uses..
Propodial :: Propodial (a.) Of or pertaining to the propodialia, or the parts of the limbs to which they belong..
Level :: Level (n.) An approximately horizontal line or surface at a certain degree of altitude, or distance from the center of the earth; as, to climb from the level of the coast to the level of the plateau and then descend to the level of the valley or of the sea..
Erased :: Erased (p. pr. & a.) Represented with jagged and uneven edges, as is torn off; -- used esp. of the head or limb of a beast. Cf. Couped..
Climb :: Climb (v. i.) To ascend or mount laboriously, esp. by use of the hands and feet..
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..
Climbable :: Climbable (a.) Capable of being climbed.
Limb :: Limb (v. t.) To dismember; to tear off the limbs of.
Vine :: Vine (n.) Any woody climbing plant which bears grapes.
Cragsman :: Cragsman (n.) One accustomed to climb rocks or crags; esp., one who makes a business of climbing the cliffs overhanging the sea to get the eggs of sea birds or the birds themselves..
Limber :: Limber (n.) The shafts or thills of a wagon or carriage.
Flagginess :: Flagginess (n.) The condition of being flaggy; laxity; limberness.
Body :: Body (n.) That part of a garment covering the body, as distinguished from the parts covering the limbs..
Circumnutation :: Circumnutation (n.) The successive bowing or bending in different directions of the growing tip of the stems of many plants, especially seen in climbing plants..
Waxwork :: Waxwork (n.) An American climbing shrub (Celastrus scandens). It bears a profusion of yellow berrylike pods, which open in the autumn, and display the scarlet coverings of the seeds..
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