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- English Word Lim Definition A limb.
- English Word Lim naea Definition A genus of fresh-water air-breathing mollusks, abundant in ponds and streams; -- called also pond snail.
- English Word Lima Definition The capital city of Peru, in South America.
- English Word Lima/on Definition A curve of the fourth degree, invented by Pascal. Its polar equation is r = a cos / + b.
- English Word Limaceous Definition Pertaining to, or like, Limax, or the slugs.
- English Word Limacina Definition A genus of small spiral pteropods, common in the Arctic and Antarctic seas. It contributes to the food of the right whales.
- English Word Limaille Definition Filings of metal.
- English Word Liman Definition The deposit of slime at the mouth of a river; slime.
- English Word Limation Definition The act of filing or polishing.
- English Word Limature Definition The act of filing.
- English Word Limature Definition That which is filed off; filings.
- English Word Limax Definition A genus of airbreathing mollusks, including the common garden slugs. They have a small rudimentary shell. The breathing pore is on the right side of the neck. Several species are troublesome in gardens. See Slug.
- English Word Limb Definition A part of a tree which extends from the trunk and separates into branches and twigs; a large branch.
- English Word Limb Definition An arm or a leg of a human being; a leg, arm, or wing of an animal.
- English Word Limb Definition A thing or person regarded as a part or member of, or attachment to, something else.
- English Word Limb Definition An elementary piece of the mechanism of a lock.
- English Word Limb Definition To supply with limbs.
- English Word Limb Definition To dismember; to tear off the limbs of.
- English Word Limb Definition A border or edge, in certain special uses.
- English Word Limb Definition The border or upper spreading part of a monopetalous corolla, or of a petal, or sepal; blade.
- English Word Limb Definition The border or edge of the disk of a heavenly body, especially of the sun and moon.
- English Word Limb Definition The graduated margin of an arc or circle, in an instrument for measuring angles.
- English Word Limbat Definition A cooling periodical wind in the Isle of Cyprus, blowing from the northwest from eight o'clock, A. M., to the middle of the day or later.
- English Word Limbate Definition Bordered, as when one color is surrounded by an edging of another.
- English Word Limbec Definition An alembic; a still.
- English Word Limbec Definition To distill.
- English Word Limbed Definition Having limbs; -- much used in composition; as, large-limbed; short-limbed.
- English Word Limber Definition The shafts or thills of a wagon or carriage.
- English Word Limber Definition The detachable fore part of a gun carriage, consisting of two wheels, an axle, and a shaft to which the horses are attached. On top is an ammunition box upon which the cannoneers sit.
- English Word Limber Definition Gutters or conduits on each side of the keelson to afford a passage for water to the pump well.