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- English Word Lim Definition A limb.
- English Word Lim naea Definition A genus of fresh-water air-breathing mollusks, abundant in ponds and streams; -- called also pond snail.
- English Word Lima Definition The capital city of Peru, in South America.
- English Word Lima/on Definition A curve of the fourth degree, invented by Pascal. Its polar equation is r = a cos / + b.
- English Word Limaceous Definition Pertaining to, or like, Limax, or the slugs.
- English Word Limacina Definition A genus of small spiral pteropods, common in the Arctic and Antarctic seas. It contributes to the food of the right whales.
- English Word Limaille Definition Filings of metal.
- English Word Liman Definition The deposit of slime at the mouth of a river; slime.
- English Word Limation Definition The act of filing or polishing.
- English Word Limature Definition The act of filing.
- English Word Limature Definition That which is filed off; filings.
- English Word Limax Definition A genus of airbreathing mollusks, including the common garden slugs. They have a small rudimentary shell. The breathing pore is on the right side of the neck. Several species are troublesome in gardens. See Slug.
- English Word Limb Definition A part of a tree which extends from the trunk and separates into branches and twigs; a large branch.
- English Word Limb Definition An arm or a leg of a human being; a leg, arm, or wing of an animal.
- English Word Limb Definition A thing or person regarded as a part or member of, or attachment to, something else.
- English Word Limb Definition An elementary piece of the mechanism of a lock.
- English Word Limb Definition To supply with limbs.
- English Word Limb Definition To dismember; to tear off the limbs of.
- English Word Limb Definition A border or edge, in certain special uses.
- English Word Limb Definition The border or upper spreading part of a monopetalous corolla, or of a petal, or sepal; blade.