limb

1. (transitive) To remove the limbs from (an animal or tree).Examples: "They limbed the felled trees before cutting them into logs."transitive

2. (transitive) To supply with limbs.Examples: "Innumerous living creatures , perfect forms , Limb'd and full grown: out of the ground uprose"; "Man was not made so large limbed and robust but that he must seek to narrow his world and wall in a space such as fitted him."transitive

3. (transitive) To thoroughly defeat an opponent in fisticuffsExamples: "Brian limbed Roger over at the Beahive last night."transitive

1. (astronomy) The apparent visual edge of a celestial body.Examples: "the solar limb"; "At 4h 57m 9s by my chronometer, (see Schedule B,) I observed with my telescope a small black speck on the preceding limb of the sun's disk, at the precise point to which I had been for some minutes directing my attention."; "Chandrasekhar (1946a, b) predicted that the limb of a star will be polarized, because photons scattered at the limb and toward the observer experience a scattering angle of Θ ≈ 90°."

2. (on a measuring instrument) The graduated edge of a circle or arc.

3. (botany) The border or upper spreading part of a monopetalous corolla, or of a petal or sepal; blade.Examples: "The corolla limb of the moonvine Calonyction aculeatum is normally undivided."