LIMB

I. noun Etymology: Middle English lim, from Old English; akin to Old Norse limr ~ and perhaps to Old English lith ~ Date: before 12th century 1. one of the projecting paired appendages (as wings) of an animal body used especially for movement and grasping but sometimes modified into sensory or sexual organs, a leg or arm of a human being, a large primary branch of a tree, an active member or agent, extension , branch , a mischievous child, ~less adjective ~y adjective II. transitive verb Date: 1674 dismember , to cut off the ~s of (a felled tree), III. noun Etymology: Latin ~us border Date: circa 1677 the outer edge of the apparent disk of a celestial body, the expanded portion of an organ or structure