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Having limbs; -- much used in composition; as, large-limbed; short-limbed. Innumerous living creatures, perfect forms, Limbed and full grown. Milton.

s or conduits on each side of the keelson to afford a passage for water to the pump well. 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 chest (Mil.), a box on the limber for c…

The quality or state of being limber; flexibleness. Boyle.

Destitute of limbs.

Piecemeal. [Obs.] "To tear her limbmeal." Shak.

n where certain classes of souls were supposed to await the judgment. As far from help as Limbo is from bliss. Shak. A Limbo large and broad, since called The Paradise of fools. Milton.

With slightly overlapping borders; -- said of a suture.

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.

A thong by which a dog is led; a leash. Halliwell.

. See under 4th Lime.

Beset with snares; insnared, as with birdlime. L. Addison.

A dog used in hunting the wild boar; a leamer. Spenser.

A kiln or furnace in which limestone or shells are burned and reduced to lime.

That part of the stage upon which the limelight as cast, usually where the most important action is progressing or where the leading player or players are placed and upon which the attention of the spectators is therefore concentrated. Hence, consspicuous position before the public; as, politicians who are never happy…

Of or pertaining to Lima, or to the inhabitants of Lima, in Peru. -- n.

A limehound; a limmer. Chaucer.

A nonsense poem of five anapestic lines, of which lines 1, 2, and 5 are of there feet, and rime, and lines 3 and 4 are of two feet, and rime; as --

A rock consisting chiefly of calcium carbonate or carbonate of lime. It sometimes contains also magnesium carbonate, and is then called magnesian or dolomitic limestone. Crystalline limestone is called marble.

Water impregnated with lime; esp., an artificial solution of lime for medicinal purposes.

A group of shore birds, embracing the plovers, sandpipers, snipe, curlew, etc. ; the Grallæ.