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A limb. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A genus of fresh-water air-breathing mollusks, abundant in ponds and streams; -- called also pond snail. [Written also Lymnæa.]

The capital city of Peru, in South America. Lima bean. (Bot.)

Pertaining to, or like, Limax, or the slugs.

A genus of small spiral pteropods, common in the Arctic and Antarctic seas. It contributes to the food of the right whales.

A curve of the fourth degree, invented by Pascal. Its polar equation is r = a cos + b.

Filings of metal. [Obs.] "An ounce . . . of silver lymaille." Chaucer.

The deposit of slime at the mouth of a river; slime.

The act of filing or polishing.

The act of filing.

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.

f an animal. A second Hector for his grim aspect, And large proportion of his strong-knit limbs. Shak.

A cooling periodical wind in the Isle of Cyprus, blowing from the northwest from eight o'clock, A. M., to the middle of the day or later.

Bordered, as when one color is surrounded by an edging of another.

An alembic; a still. [Obs.] Spenser. Shak.

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.