Usually means: Appendage for movement or manipulation.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. limb: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. limb, limb: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. limb, limb: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. limb: Collins English Dictionary
  5. limb: Vocabulary.com
  6. Limb, limb: Wordnik
  7. limb: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. limb: Wiktionary
  9. limb: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. limb: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. limb: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. limb: Dictionary.com
  13. limb (1), limb (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. limb: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Limb (album), Limb (anatomy), Limb: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Limb: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. limb: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. limb: Rhymezone
  19. limb: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. limb: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Limb: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. limb: Free Dictionary
  23. limb: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. limb: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. limb: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. limb: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. limb: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Limb: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. limb: Medical dictionary
  5. Limb: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. LIMB: Acronym Finder
  2. limb: Idioms

Science (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. Limb: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  3. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)
  4. Imagine the Universe! Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Bryological (No longer online)
  6. Limb: Extragalactic Astronomy
  7. limb: Nine Planets Glossary
  8. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)
  9. LIMB: Zoom Astronomy Glossary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. limb, limb: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. limb: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. Limb: Sports Definitions

Tech (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. High-Energy Astrophysics (No longer online)
  2. LIMB: NATURAL RESOURCE INVENTORY
  3. Farrier & Hoofcare (No longer online)
  4. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  5. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  6. SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL TERMS (No longer online)
  7. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A major appendage of human or animal, used for locomotion (such as an arm, leg or wing).
noun:  A branch of a tree.
noun:  (archery) The part of the bow, from the handle to the tip.
noun:  An elementary piece of the mechanism of a lock.
noun:  A thing or person regarded as a part or member of, or attachment to, something else.
verb:  (transitive) To remove the limbs from (an animal or tree).
verb:  (transitive) To supply with limbs.
noun:  (astronomy) The apparent visual edge of a celestial body.
noun:  (on a measuring instrument) The graduated edge of a circle or arc.
noun:  (botany) The border or upper spreading part of a monopetalous corolla, or of a petal or sepal; blade.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  Short for limb of Satan (“a wicked or mischievous child”). [(colloquial) A wicked or mischievous child.]

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