Limb

n.	1.	A part of a tree which extends from the trunk and separates into branches and twigs; a large branch.
	2.	An arm or a leg of a human being; a leg, arm, or wing of an animal. A second Hector for his grim aspect, And large proportion of his strong-knit limbs. - Shak.
	3.	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. - Sir W. Scott.
	4.	An elementary piece of the mechanism of a lock. Limb of the law a lawyer or an officer of the law. - Landor.
v. t.	1.	To supply with limbs.
	2.	To dismember; to tear off the limbs of.
n.	1.	(Bot.) A border or edge, in certain special uses.

Noun	1.	limb - one of the jointed appendages of an animal used for locomotion or grasping: arm; leg; wing; flipper
	2.	limb - any of the main branches arising from the trunk or a bough of a tree Synonyms: tree branch
	3.	limb - (astronomy) the circumferential edge of the apparent disc of the sun or the moon or a planet
	4.	limb - either of the two halves of a bow from handle to tip; "the upper limb of the bow"
	5.	limb - the graduated arc that is attached to an instrument for measuring angles; "the limb of the sextant"
	6.	limb - any projection that is thought to resemble an arm; "the arm of the record player"; "an arm of the sea"; "a branch of the sewer" Synonyms: arm, branch

ankle, bank, bar, bayonet legs, beam, bine, board, boom, border, bordure, bough, bowlegs, branch, branchedness, branchiness, brim, brink, brow, burgeon, calf, cant hook, claw bar, cnemis, coast, crank, crow, crowbar, deadwood, devil, drumstick, edge, enfant terrible, featheredge, flagellum, flange, foreleg, fork, frame, fringe, frond, gamb, gambrel, gigot, ham, hand, handspike, hem, hind leg, hock, imp, iron crow, jamb, jimmy, joint, knee, labellum, labium, labrum, ledge, lever, limbus, link, lip, list, lobe, lobule, marge, margin, marlinespike, mischief, offshoot, organ, outrigger, peavey, pedal, pinch bar, pinion, podite, popliteal space, prize, pry, ragged edge, ramage, ramification, rapscallion, rascal, rim, ripping bar, rogue, runner, sarment, scalawag, scion, scissor-legs, selvage, shank, shin, shoot, shore, side, sideline, skirt, slip, spar, spear, spray, sprig, sprit, sprout, spur, stems, stolon, stumps, sucker, switch, tail, tarsus, tendril, thallus, treadle, trotters, twig, verge, villain, wing, wrecking bar

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