lim.

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 quadrantWe 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.

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.

The branch of a tree; applied only to a branch of some size, and not to a small twig.

In botany, the border or upper spreading part of a monopetalous corol.

To supply with limbs.

To dismember; to tear off the limbs.