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To climb bevond; to surpass in climbing. Davenant.

, An extreme member or part of a thing; a limb. [Obs.] Fuller.

To climb over. Surrey.

To detach the limber from; as, to unlimber a gun.

To climb up; to ascend. Upclomb the shadowy pine above the woven copse. Tennyson.

To draw away, as a limb or other part, from its ordinary position.

The movement which separates a limb or other part from the axis, or middle line, of the body.

A muscle which draws a limb or part of the body toward the middle line of the body, or closes extended parts of the body; -- opposed to abductor; as, the adductor of the eye, which turns the eye toward the nose. In the bivalve shells, the muscles which close the values of the shell are called adductor muscles. Verrill.…

ts of tropical Asia, due to a specific microörganism which produces chronic ulcers on the limbs. It is often fatal. Called also Cochin China ulcer, Persian ulcer, tropical ulcer, etc.

or or horror. Aghast he waked; and, starting from his bed, Cold sweat in clammy drops his limbs o'erspread. Dryden. The commissioners read and stood aghast. Macaulay.

Having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs; apt or ready to move; nimble; active; as, an agile boy; an agile tongue. Shaking it with agile hand. Cowper.

The quality of being agile; the power of moving the limbs quickly and easily; nimbleness; activity; quickness of motion; as, strength and agility of body. They . . . trust to the agility of their wit. Bacon. Wheeling with the agility of a hawk. Sir W. Scott.

Of, pertaining to, or like, alabaster; as alabastrine limbs.

A long staff, pointed with iron, used in climbing the Alps. Cheever.

A climber of the Alps.

s, inhabiting the Southern United States, having a serpentlike form, but with four minute limbs and two persistent gill openings; the Congo snake.

To cut off (a limb or projecting part (of the body). Wiseman.

The act amputating; esp. the operation of cutting of a limb or projecting part of the body.

g long out of water, and of making their way on land for considerable distances, and for climbing trees; the climbing fishes.

l or an unctuous substance; also, to spread over, as oil. And fragrant oils the stiffened limbs anoint. Dryden. He anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay. John ix. 6.