LIMB

vt to supply with limbs.

2. limb ·noun a border or edge, in certain special uses.

3. limb ·noun an elementary piece of the mechanism of a lock.

4. limb ·vt to dismember; to tear off the limbs of.

5. limb ·noun the graduated margin of an arc or circle, in an instrument for measuring angles.

6. limb ·noun the border or edge of the disk of a heavenly body, especially of the sun and moon.

7. limb ·noun a thing or person regarded as a part or member of, or attachment to, something else.

8. limb ·noun an arm or a leg of a human being; a leg, arm, or wing of an animal.

9. limb ·noun the border or upper spreading part of a monopetalous corolla, or of a petal, or sepal; blade.

10. limb ·noun a part of a tree which extends from the trunk and separates into branches and twigs; a large branch.