noun
- a part that extends from the trunk of a body, as an arm, leg, or wing
- a large branch of a tree
- any projecting part forming an outgrowth or extension from a larger body
- a person or thing regarded as a branch, part, agent, or representative: a policeman is a limb of the law
- Chiefly Brit., Informal a naughty child
Origin:
with unhistoric -b < ME lim < OE, akin to ON limr, limb < IE base *(e)lei-, to bend > el(bow)
transitive verb
Rare to dismember; disjoint