Limbname

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  A surname.

limbnoun詞源 1/lɪm/

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  A major appendage of human or animal, used for locomotion (such as an arm, leg or wing).

  • UUhoſe hands are made to gripe a warlike Lance— Their ſhoulders broad, for complet armour fit, Their lims more large and of a bigger ſize Than all the brats yſprong from Typhons loins:
  • Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with […] on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like withered elfin limbs.
• 2

  A branch of a tree.

• 3

  archerygovernmenthobbiesThe part of the bow, from the handle to the tip.

• 4

  An elementary piece of the mechanism of a lock.

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

  • That little limb of the devil has cheated the gallows.

limbverb詞源 1/lɪm/

• 1

  To remove the limbs from (an animal or tree).

  • They limbed the felled trees before cutting them into logs.
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  To supply with limbs.

  • Innumerous living creatures , perfect forms , Limb'd and full grown: out of the ground uprose
  • Man was not made so large limbed and robust but that he must seek to narrow his world and wall in a space such as fitted him.
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  To thoroughly defeat an opponent in fisticuffs

  • Brian limbed Roger over at the Beahive last night.

limbnoun詞源 2/lɪm/

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  astronomynatural-sciencesThe apparent visual edge of a celestial body.

  • the solar limb
  • At 4h 57m 9s by my chronometer, (see Schedule B,) I observed with my telescope a small black speck on the preceding limb of the sun's disk, at the precise point to which I had been for some minutes directing my attention.
• 2

  The graduated edge of a circle or arc.

• 3

  biologybotanynatural-sciencesThe border or upper spreading part of a monopetalous corolla, or of a petal or sepal; blade.

  • The corolla limb of the moonvine Calonyction aculeatum is normally undivided.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• limb of Satan