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{ } n. See Bilimbi, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. With well-proportioned, unblemished limbs; as, a clean-limbed young fellow. Dickens. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Climbed Obs. or Vulgar Clomb p. pr. & vb. n. Climbing. ] [ AS. climban; akin to OHG. chlimban, G. & D. klimmen, Icel. klīfa, and E. cleave to adhere. ] 1. To ascend or mount laboriously, esp. by use of the hands and feet. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To ascend as if with effort; to rise to a higher point. [ 1913 Webster ]

Black vapors climb aloft, and cloud the day. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Bot.) To ascend or creep upward by twining about a support, or by attaching itself by tendrils, rootlets, etc., to a support or upright surface. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To ascend, as by means of the hands and feet, or laboriously or slowly; to mount. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of one who climbs; ascent by climbing. Warburton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being climbed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a retraction of a previously held position.
Syn. -- withdrawal, backdown. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

Grand climacteric or
Great climacteric, the sixty-third year of human life. [ 1913 Webster ]

I should hardly yield my rigid fibers to be regenerated by them; nor begin, in my grand climacteric, to squall in their new accents, or to stammer, in my second cradle, the elemental sounds of their barbarous metaphysics. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, climbs: (a) (Bot.) A plant that climbs. (b) (Zool.) A bird that climbs, as a woodpecker or a parrot. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ From Climb; cf. Clamber. ] To climb; to mount with effort; to clamber. [ Obs. ] Tusser. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. pr. & vb. n. of Climb. [ 1913 Webster ]

Climbing fern. See under Fern. --
Climbing perch. (Zool.) See Anabas, and Labyrinthici. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To tear limb from limb; to dismember. [ Obs. ] Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A tropical American tree (Bursera simaruba) yielding a reddish resin used in cements and varnishes.
Syn. -- Bursera simaruba. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ OE. lim, AS. lim; akin to Icel. limr limb, lim branch of a tree, Sw. & Dan. lem limb; cf. also AS. lið, OHG. lid, gilid, G. glied, Goth. liþus. Cf. Lith, Limber. ] 1. A part of a tree which extends from the trunk and separates into branches and twigs; a large branch. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An arm or a leg of a human being; a leg, arm, or wing of an animal. [ 1913 Webster ]

A second Hector for his grim aspect,
And large proportion of his strong-knit limbs. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A thing or person regarded as a part or member of, or attachment to, something else. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

That little limb of the devil has cheated the gallows. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. An elementary piece of the mechanism of a lock. [ 1913 Webster ]

Limb of the law, a lawyer or an officer of the law. [ Colloq. ] Landor. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To supply with limbs. [ R. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To dismember; to tear off the limbs of. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. limbus border. Cf. Limbo, Limbus. ] A border or edge, in certain special uses. (a) (Bot.) The border or upper spreading part of a monopetalous corolla, or of a petal, or sepal; blade. (b) (Astron.) The border or edge of the disk of a heavenly body, especially of the sun and moon. (c) The graduated margin of an arc or circle, in an instrument for measuring angles. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Etymol. uncertain. ] 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. limbatus, fr. limbus border, edge. See Limbus. ] (Bot. & Zool.) Bordered, as when one color is surrounded by an edging of another. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Abbrev. of alembic. ] An alembic; a still. [ Obs. ] Spenser. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To distill. [ Obs. ] Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having limbs; -- much used in composition; as, large-limbed; short-limbed. [ 1913 Webster ]

Innumerous living creatures, perfect forms,
Limbed and full grown. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ For limmer, Icel. limar branches, boughs, pl. of lim; akin to E. limb. See Limb a branch. ] 1. pl. The shafts or thills of a wagon or carriage. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mil.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. pl. (Naut.) Gutters or conduits on each side of the keelson to afford a passage for water to the pump well. [ 1913 Webster ]

Limber boards (Naut.), short pieces of plank forming part of the lining of a ship's floor immediately above the timbers, so as to prevent the limbers from becoming clogged. --
Limber box or
Limber chest (Mil.), a box on the limber for carrying ammunition. --
Limber rope,
Limber chain or
Limber clearer (Naut.), a rope or chain passing through the limbers of a ship, by which they may be cleared of dirt that chokes them. Totten. --
Limber strake (Shipbuilding), the first course of inside planking next the keelson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Limbered p. pr. & vb. n. Limbering. ] (Mil.) To attach to the limber; as, to limber a gun. [ 1913 Webster ]

To limber up, to change a gun carriage into a four-wheeled vehicle by attaching the limber. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Akin to limp, a. √125. See Limp, a. ] Easily bent; flexible; pliant; yielding. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

The bargeman that doth row with long and limber oar. Turbervile. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To cause to become limber; to make flexible or pliant. Richardson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being limber; flexibleness. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. of or pertaining to the limbic system; as, the limbic system. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Anatomy, Neurophysiology) A group of neural structures in the brain below the cerebral cortex, centered on the hypothalamus and including the hippocampus and amygdala, involved with control of emotion, motivation, memory, and some homeostatic regulatory processes. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

At the most ancient part of the human brain lies the spinal cord; the medulla and pons, which comprise the hindbrain; and the midbrain. This cobination of spinal cord, hindbrain, and midbrain MacLean calls the neural chassis. It contains the basic neural machinery for reproduction and self-preservation, . . . MacLean has distinguished three sorts of [ more recent brain structures controlling ] the neural chassis. The most ancient of them surround the midbrain. . . . We share it with the other mammals and the reptiles. It probably evolved several hundred million years ago. MacLean calls it the reptilian or R-complex. Surrounding the R-complex is the limbic system, so called because it borders on the underlying brain. (Our arms and legs are called limbs because they are peripheral to the rest of the body.) We share the limbic system with other mammals, but not, in its full elaboration, with the reptiles. It probably evolved more than one hundred fifty million years ago. Finally, surrounding the rest of the brain and clearly the most recent evolutionary accretion, is the neocortex. Carl Sagan (The Dragons of Eden, New York, Random House, 1977). [ PJC ]

a. Destitute of limbs. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ See Limb, and Piecemeal. ] Piecemeal. [ Obs. ] “To tear her limbmeal.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Jamaican E. limba to bend, fr. E. limber (1950) MW10 ] A West Indian dance contest, in which participants must dance under a pole which is lowered successively until only one participant can successfully pass under, without falling. It is often performed at celebrations, such as weddings. [ PJC ]

a. [ See Limbus. ] (Anat.) With slightly overlapping borders; -- said of a suture. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ n., } pos>n. A soft cheese made in the Belgian province of Limburg (Limbourg), and usually not eaten until the curing has developed a peculiar and, to most people, unpleasant odor. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

{ } n. [ L. limbus border, edge in limbo on the border. Cf. Limb border. ] 1. (Scholastic Theol.) An spiritual region where certain classes of souls were supposed to await the last judgment. [ 1913 Webster ]

As far from help as Limbo is from bliss. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

A Limbo large and broad, since called
The Paradise of fools. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The limbus patrum was considered as a place for the souls of good men who lived before the coming of our Savior. The limbus infantium was said to be a similar place for the souls of unbaptized infants. To these was added, in the popular belief, the limbus fatuorum, or fool's paradise, regarded as a receptacle of all vanity and nonsense. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence: Any real or imaginary place of restraint or confinement; a prison; as, to put a man in limbo. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Hence: A state of waiting, or uncertainty, in which final judgment concerning the outcome of a decision is postponed, perhaps indefinitely; neglect for an indefinite time; as, the proposal was left in limbo while opponents and proponents refused to compromise. [ PJC ]

4. (Anat.) A border or margin; as, the limbus of the cornea. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To climb beyond; to surpass in climbing. Davenant. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An extreme member or part of a thing; a limb. [ Obs. ] Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To climb over. Surrey. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + limber. ] (Mil.) To detach the limber from; as, to unlimber a gun. [ 1913 Webster ]

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