Limbed vs Limed - What's the difference?
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(limb)
A major appendage of human or animal, used for locomotion (such as an arm, leg or wing).
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*:Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, withon one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like withered elfin limbs .
A branch of a tree.
(lb) The part of the bow, from the handle to the tip.
(lb) The border or upper spreading part of a monopetalous corolla, or of a petal or sepal; blade.
(lb) The border or edge of the disk of a heavenly body, especially of the sun or moon.
The graduated margin of an arc or circle in an instrument for measuring angles.
An elementary piece of the mechanism of a lock.
A thing or person regarded as a part or member of, or attachment to, something else.
*Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
*:That little limb of the devil has cheated the gallows.
To remove the limbs from an animal or tree.
To supply with limbs.
* , Walden :
(astronomy) The apparent visual edge of a celestial body.
(on a measuring instrument) The graduated edge of a circle or arc.
(lime)
(chemistry) A general term for inorganic materials containing calcium, usually calcium oxide or calcium hydroxide; quicklime.
* 1952 , L.F. Salzman, Building in England , page 149.
(poetic) Any gluey or adhesive substance; something which traps or captures someone; sometimes a synonym for birdlime.
* 1610 , , by (William Shakespeare), act 4 scene 1
* (rfdate) Wordsworth
To treat with calcium hydroxide or calcium oxide (lime).
To smear with birdlime.
# (rare) To ensnare, catch, entrap.
#* 1599 , (William Shakespeare), (Much Ado About Nothing) ,
To apply limewash
A deciduous tree of the genus Tilia , especially ; the linden tree, or its wood.
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Any of several green citrus fruit, somewhat smaller and sharper-tasting than a lemon.
Any of the trees that bear limes, especially key lime, .
A light, somewhat yellowish, green colour associated with the fruits of a lime tree.
Containing lime or lime juice.
Having the aroma or flavor of lime.
Lime-green.
(West Indies) To hang out/socialize in an informal, relaxed environment, especially with friends, for example at a party or on the beach.
(anime) A fan fiction story that stops short of full, explicit descriptions of sexual activity, with the intimacy left to the reader's imagination.
As verbs the difference between limbed and limed
is that limbed is (limb) while limed is (lime).limbed
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
* *limb
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) lim, from (etyl) . The silent -b began to appear in the late 1500s.Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* go out on a limbVerb
(en verb)- They limbed the felled trees before cutting them into logs.
- Man was not made so large limbed and robust but that he must seek to narrow his world and wall in a space such as fitted him.
- (Milton)
Synonyms
* delimbEtymology 2
From (etyl) limbus , "border".Noun
(en noun)- solar limb
See also
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* English terms with multiple etymologieslimed
English
Verb
(head)lime
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) .Noun
- Lime , which is the product of the burning of chalk or limestone, might be bought ready burnt, or it could be burnt in kilns specially constructed in the neighbourhood of the building operations.
- Monster, come, put some lime upon your fingers, and away with the rest.
- Like the lime that foolish birds are caught with.
Derived terms
* chloride of lime * delime * limekiln * limelight * limelighter * limescale * limestone * limewater * limeworking * quicklime * slaked lime * soda lime * unslaked lime * white limeSee also
* asbestos * calcareous * calcify * calcine * calcium * calcium hydroxide * calcspar * calc-tufa * calculus * calx * chalkVerb
(lim)- URSULA. She's lim'd , I warrant you: we have caught her, madam.
- HERO. If it prove so, then loving goes by haps:
- Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.
Etymology 2
An alteration of line, a variant form of lind.Noun
(en noun)- she looked before her, not consciously seeing, but absorbing into the intensity of her mood, the solemn glory of the afternoon with its long swathes of light between the far-off rows of limes , whose shadows touched each other.