limb

Definitions

1. 1noun

   A part of a tree which extends from the trunk and separates into branches and twigs; a large branch.

2. 2noun

   An arm or a leg of a human being; a leg, arm, or wing of an animal.

3. 3noun

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

4. 4noun

   An elementary piece of the mechanism of a lock.

5. 5transitive verb

   To supply with limbs.

6. 6transitive verb

   To dismember; to tear off the limbs of.

7. 7noun

   A border or edge, in certain special uses.

8. 8noun

   The border or upper spreading part of a monopetalous corolla, or of a petal, or sepal; blade.

9. 9noun

   The border or edge of the disk of a heavenly body, especially of the sun and moon.

10. 10noun

    The graduated margin of an arc or circle, in an instrument for measuring angles.

11. 11noun

    any projection that is thought to resemble a human arm

    "the arm of the record player"

    "an arm of the sea"

    Synonyms

    armbranch
12. 12noun

    the graduated arc that is attached to an instrument for measuring angles

    "the limb of the sextant"

13. 13noun

    either of the two halves of a bow from handle to tip

    "the upper limb of the bow"

14. 14noun

    one of the jointed appendages of an animal used for locomotion or grasping: arm; leg; wing; flipper

15. 15noun

    (astronomy) the circumferential edge of the apparent disc of the sun or the moon or a planet

16. 16noun

    any of the main branches arising from the trunk or a bough of a tree