Definition of limit

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Limit (v. t.) That which terminates a period of time; hence, the period itself; the full time or extent..

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Assign :: Assign (v. t.) To fix, specify, select, or designate; to point out authoritatively or exactly; as, to assign a limit; to assign counsel for a prisoner; to assign a day for trial..
Revival :: Revival (n.) Restoration of force, validity, or effect; renewal; as, the revival of a debt barred by limitation; the revival of a revoked will, etc..
Exhaustion :: Exhaustion (n.) An ancient geometrical method in which an exhaustive process was employed. It was nearly equivalent to the modern method of limits.
Limitour :: Limitour (n.) See Limiter, 2..
Vein :: Vein (n.) A narrow mass of rock intersecting other rocks, and filling inclined or vertical fissures not corresponding with the stratification; a lode; a dike; -- often limited, in the language of miners, to a mineral vein or lode, that is, to a vein which contains useful minerals or ores..
Qualify :: Qualify (v. t.) To reduce from a general, undefined, or comprehensive form, to particular or restricted form; to modify; to limit; to restrict; to restrain; as, to qualify a statement, claim, or proposition..
Kenning :: Kenning (v. t.) The limit of vision at sea, being a distance of about twenty miles..
Pitch :: Pitch (n.) A point or peak; the extreme point or degree of elevation or depression; hence, a limit or bound..
Sorghum :: Sorghum (n.) A genus of grasses, properly limited to two species, Sorghum Halepense, the Arabian millet, or Johnson grass (see Johnson grass), and S. vulgare, the Indian millet (see Indian millet, under Indian)..
Massacre :: Massacre (n.) To kill in considerable numbers where much resistance can not be made; to kill with indiscriminate violence, without necessity, and contrary to the usages of nations; to butcher; to slaughter; -- limited to the killing of human beings..
Tail :: Tail (a.) Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed; as, estate tail..
Locality :: Locality (n.) The state, or condition, of belonging to a definite place, or of being contained within definite limits..
Consigne :: Consigne (n.) One who is orders to keep within certain limits.
Pool :: Pool (n.) A combination of persons contributing money to be used for the purpose of increasing or depressing the market price of stocks, grain, or other commodities; also, the aggregate of the sums so contributed; as, the pool took all the wheat offered below the limit; he put $10,000 into the pool..
Terminus :: Terminus (n.) Literally, a boundary; a border; a limit..
Exorbitancy :: Exorbitancy (n.) A going out of or beyond the usual or due limit; hence, enormity; extravagance; gross deviation from rule, right, or propriety; as, the exorbitances of the tongue or of deportment; exorbitance of demands..
Extralimitary :: Extralimitary (a.) Being beyond the limit or bounds; as, extraliminary land..
Protrusion :: Protrusion (n.) The act of protruding or thrusting forward, or beyond the usual limit..
Clear :: Clear (adv.) Without limitation; wholly; quite; entirely; as, to cut a piece clear off..
Bournless :: Bournless (a.) Without a bourn or limit.
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