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Li*ma"ceous (l*m"shs), a. [L. limax, limacis, slug, snail: cf. F. limacé.] (Zoöl.) Pertaining to, or like, Limax, or the slugs.

||Lim`a*ci"na (lm`*s"n), n. [NL., from L. limax, limacis, a slug.] ||(Zoöl.) A genus of small spiral pteropods, common in the Arctic and ||Antarctic seas. It contributes to the food of the right whales. || ||Li`ma`çon" (l`m`sôN"), n. [F. limaçon, lit., a snail.] (Geom.) A ||curve of the fourth degree, invented by Pascal. Its polar equation is ||r = a cos θ + b. || Li"maille (l"ml; F. l`mä"y'), n. [F., fr. limer to file. See Limation.] Filings of metal. [Obs.] "An ounce . . . of silver lymaille." Chaucer.

Li"man (l"man), n. [F. limon, fr. L. limus slime.] The deposit of slime at the mouth of a river; slime.

Li*ma"tion (l*m"shn), n. [L. limatus, p. p. of limare to file, fr. lima file : cf. F. limation.] The act of filing or polishing.

Li"ma*ture (l"m*tr; 135), n. [L. limatura. See Limation.] 1. The act of filing.

2. That which is filed off; filings. Johnson.

||Li"max (l"mks), n. [L.] (Zoöl.) 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. || Limb (lm), n. [OE. lim, AS. lim; akin to Icel. limr limb, lim branch of a tree, Sw. & Dan. lem limb; cf. also AS. lið, OHG. lid, gilid, G. glied, Goth. liþus. Cf. Lith, Limber.] 1. A part of a tree which extends from the trunk and separates into branches and twigs; a large branch.

2. An arm or a leg of a human being; a leg, arm, or wing of an animal.

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

Shak.

3. A thing or person regarded as a part or member of, or attachment to, something else. Shak.

That little limb of the devil has cheated the gallows.

Sir W. Scott.

4. An elementary piece of the mechanism of a lock.

Limb of the law, a lawyer or an officer of the law. [Colloq.] Landor.

Limb, v. t. 1. To supply with limbs. [R.] Milton.

2. To dismember; to tear off the limbs of.

Limb, n. [L. limbus border. Cf. Limbo, Limbus.] A border or edge, in certain special uses. (a) (Bot.) The border or upper spreading part of a monopetalous corolla, or of a petal, or sepal; blade. (b) (Astron.) The border or edge of the disk of a heavenly body, especially of the sun and moon. (c) The graduated margin of an arc or circle, in an instrument for measuring angles.

Lim"bat (lm"bt), n. [Etymol. uncertain.] 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.

Lim"bate (lm"bt), a. [L. limbatus, fr. limbus border, edge. See Limbus.] (Bot. & Zoöl.) Bordered, as when one color is surrounded by an edging of another.

Lim"bec (-bk), n. [Abbrev. of alembic.] An alembic; a still. [Obs.] Spenser. Shak.

Lim"bec, v. t. To distill. [Obs.] Dryden.

Limbed (lmd), a. Having limbs; -- much used in composition; as, large-limbed; short-limbed.

Innumerous living creatures, perfect forms, Limbed and full grown.

Milton.

Lim"ber (lm"br), n. [For limmer, Icel. limar branches, boughs, pl. of lim; akin to E. limb. See Limb a branch.] 1. pl. The shafts or thills of a wagon or carriage. [Prov. Eng.]

2. (Mil.) The detachable fore part of a gun carriage, consisting of two wheels, an axle, and a shaft to which the horses are attached. On top is an ammunition box upon which the cannoneers sit.

3. pl. (Naut.) Gutters or conduits on each side of the keelson to afford a passage for water to the pump well.