Limb
A part of a tree which extends from the trunk and separates into branches and twigs; a large branch.
An arm or a leg of a human being; a leg, arm, or wing of an animal.
A thing or person regarded as a part or member of, or attachment to, something else.
An elementary piece of the mechanism of a lock.
To supply with limbs.
To dismember; to tear off the limbs of.
A border or edge, in certain special uses.
The border or upper spreading part of a monopetalous corolla, or of a petal, or sepal; blade.
The border or edge of the disk of a heavenly body, especially of the sun and moon.
The graduated margin of an arc or circle, in an instrument for measuring angles.
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Limb Quotations
First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf.
Martin Luther
You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is.
Will Rogers
For me, the safest place is out on a limb.
Shirley MacLaine
Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. It's where all the fruit is.
Shirley MacLaine
If the worst thing that can happen is that nobody laughs, then I can deal with that, because the worst thing that can happen at the factory is that I could lose a limb or be crushed by a huge machine.
George Lopez
The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.
Robert Southey
California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that.
Saul Bellow
The fishes are also employed for the same purpose on any yard, which happens to be sprung or fractured. Thus their form, application, and utility are exactly like those of the splinters applied to a broken limb in surgery.
William Falconer
When you go out on a limb, that's when you really know you're living.
Robin Quivers
Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the god.
Derek Walcott
Limb Translations
limb in Afrikaans is lid
limb in Danish is medlem
limb in Dutch is lid, lidmaat
limb in French is membre
limb in German is Glied
limb in Italian is membro
limb in Norwegian is lem
limb in Portuguese is membro
limb in Spanish is miembro
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