Limb
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( n.) A part of a tree which extends from the trunk and separates into branches and twigs; a large branch.
(2): ( n.) A thing or person regarded as a part or member of, or attachment to, something else.
(3): ( v. t.) To dismember; to tear off the limbs of.
(4): ( n.) A border or edge, in certain special uses.
(5): ( v. t.) To supply with limbs.
(6): ( n.) An arm or a leg of a human being; a leg, arm, or wing of an animal.
(7): ( n.) An elementary piece of the mechanism of a lock.
(8): ( n.) The border or upper spreading part of a monopetalous corolla, or of a petal, or sepal; blade.
(9): ( n.) The border or edge of the disk of a heavenly body, especially of the sun and moon.
(10): ( n.) The graduated margin of an arc or circle, in an instrument for measuring angles.
King James Dictionary [2]
Limb, n. lim. L. limbus, edge or border, extremity limes, limit. The sense of limb is from shooting or extending.
1. Edge or border. This is the proper signification of the word but in this sense it is limited chiefly to technical use, and applied to the sun, moon, or a star, to a leaf, to a quadrant, &c. We say, the sun or moon is eclipsed on its northern limb. But we never say, the limb of a board, of a tract of land or water, &c. 2. In anatomy, and in common use, an extremity of the human body a member a projecting part as the arm or leg that is, a shoot. 3. The branch of a tree applied only to a branch of some size, and not to a small twig. 4. In botany, the border or upper spreading part of a monopetalous corol.
