Limation (n.) The act of filing or polishing.
Limature (n.) The act of filing.
Limature (n.) That which is filed off; filings.
Limax (n.) 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 (n.) A part of a tree which extends from the trunk and separates into branches and twigs; a large branch.
Limb (n.) An arm or a leg of a human being; a leg, arm, or wing of an animal.
Limb (n.) A thing or person regarded as a part or member of, or attachment to, something else.
Limb (n.) An elementary piece of the mechanism of a lock.
Limb (v. t.) To supply with limbs.
Limb (v. t.) To dismember; to tear off the limbs of.
Limb (n.) A border or edge, in certain special uses.
Limb (n.) The border or upper spreading part of a monopetalous corolla, or of a petal, or sepal; blade.
Limb (n.) The border or edge of the disk of a heavenly body, especially of the sun and moon.
Limb (n.) The graduated margin of an arc or circle, in an instrument for measuring angles.
Limbat (n.) 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.
Limbate (a.) Bordered, as when one color is surrounded by an edging of another.
Limbec (n.) An alembic; a still.
Limbec (v. t.) To distill.
Limbed (a.) Having limbs; -- much used in composition; as, large-limbed; short-limbed.
Limber (n.) The shafts or thills of a wagon or carriage.
Limber (n.) 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.
Limber (n.) Gutters or conduits on each side of the keelson to afford a passage for water to the pump well.
Limbered (imp. & p. p.) of Limber
Limbering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Limber
Limber (v. t.) To attach to the limber; as, to limber a gun.
Limber (a.) Easily bent; flexible; pliant; yielding.
Limber (v. t.) To cause to become limber; to make flexible or pliant.
Limberness (n.) The quality or state of being limber; flexibleness.
Limbless (a.) Destitute of limbs.
Limbmeal (adv.) Piecemeal.
Limbo (n.) Alt. of Limbus
Limbus (n.) An extramundane region where certain classes of souls were supposed to await the judgment.
Limbus (n.) Hence: Any real or imaginary place of restraint or confinement; a prison; as, to put a man in limbo.
Limbus (n.) A border or margin; as, the limbus of the cornea.
Limbous (a.) With slightly overlapping borders; -- said of a suture.
Lime (n.) A thong by which a dog is led; a leash.
Lime (n.) The linden tree. See Linden.
Lime (n.) A fruit allied to the lemon, but much smaller; also, the tree which bears it. There are two kinds; Citrus Medica, var. acida which is intensely sour, and the sweet lime (C. Medica, var. Limetta) which is only slightly sour.
Lime (n.) Birdlime.
Lime (n.) Oxide of calcium; the white or gray, caustic substance, usually called quicklime, obtained by calcining limestone or shells, the heat driving off carbon dioxide and leaving lime. It develops great heat when treated with water, forming slacked lime, and is an essential ingredient of cement, plastering, mortar, etc.
Limed (imp. & p. p.) of Lime
Liming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lime
Lime (v. t.) To smear with a viscous substance, as birdlime.
Lime (v. t.) To entangle; to insnare.
Lime (v. t.) To treat with lime, or oxide or hydrate of calcium; to manure with lime; as, to lime hides for removing the hair; to lime sails in order to whiten them.
Lime (v. t.) To cement.
Limehound (n.) A dog used in hunting the wild boar; a leamer.
Limekiln (n.) A kiln or furnace in which limestone or shells are burned and reduced to lime.
Limenean (a.) Of or pertaining to Lima, or to the inhabitants of Lima, in Peru.
Limenean (n.) A native or inhabitant of Lima.
Limer (n.) A limehound; a limmer.
Limestone (n.) 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.
Lime twig () See under 4th Lime.
Lime-twigged (a.) Beset with snares; insnared, as with birdlime.
Limewater (n.) Water impregnated with lime; esp., an artificial solution of lime for medicinal purposes.
Limicolae (n. pl.) A group of shore birds, embracing the plovers, sandpipers, snipe, curlew, etc. ; the Grallae.
Limicoline (a.) Shore-inhabiting; of or pertaining to the Limicolae.
Liminess (n.) The state or quality of being limy.
Limit (v. t.) That which terminates, circumscribes, restrains, or confines; the bound, border, or edge; the utmost extent; as, the limit of a walk, of a town, of a country; the limits of human knowledge or endeavor.
Limit (v. t.) The space or thing defined by limits.
Limit (v. t.) That which terminates a period of time; hence, the period itself; the full time or extent.
Limit (v. t.) A restriction; a check; a curb; a hindrance.
Limit (v. t.) A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic; a differentia.
Limit (v. t.) A determinate quantity, to which a variable one continually approaches, and may differ from it by less than any given difference, but to which, under the law of variation, the variable can never become exactly equivalent.
Limited (imp. & p. p.) of Limit
Limiting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Limit
Limit (v. t.) To apply a limit to, or set a limit for; to terminate, circumscribe, or restrict, by a limit or limits; as, to limit the acreage of a crop; to limit the issue of paper money; to limit one's ambitions or aspirations; to limit the meaning of a word.
Limit (v. i.) To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region; as, a limiting friar.
Limitable (a.) Capable of being limited.
Limitaneous (v. t.) Of or pertaining to a limit.
Limitarian (a.) Tending to limit.
Limitary (v. t.) Placed at the limit, as a guard.
Limitary (v. t.) Confined within limits; limited in extent, authority, power, etc.
Limitary (v. t.) Limiting, or tending to limit; restrictive.
-ries (pl. ) of Limitary
Limitary (n.) That which serves to limit; a boundary; border land.
Limitary (n.) A limiter. See Limiter, 2.
Limitate (v. t.) Bounded by a distinct line.
Limitation (v. t.) The act of limiting; the state or condition of being limited; as, the limitation of his authority was approved by the council.
Limitation (v. t.) That which limits; a restriction; a qualification; a restraining condition, defining circumstance, or qualifying conception; as, limitations of thought.
Limitation (v. t.) A certain precinct within which friars were allowed to beg, or exercise their functions; also, the time during which they were permitted to exercise their functions in such a district.
Limitation (v. t.) A limited time within or during which something is to be done.
Limitation (v. t.) A certain period limited by statute after which the claimant shall not enforce his claims by suit.
Limitation (v. t.) A settling of an estate or property by specific rules.
Limitation (v. t.) A restriction of power; as, a constitutional limitation.
Limited (a.) Confined within limits; narrow; circumscribed; restricted; as, our views of nature are very limited.
Limitedly (adv.) With limitation.
Limitedness (n.) The quality of being limited.
Limiter (n.) One who, or that which, limits.
Limiter (n.) A friar licensed to beg within certain bounds, or whose duty was limited to a certain district.
Limitive (a.) Involving a limit; as, a limitive law, one designed to limit existing powers.
Limitless (a.) Having no limits; unbounded; boundless.
Limitour (n.) See Limiter, 2.
Limmer (a.) Limber.
Limmer (n.) A limehound; a leamer.
Limmer (n.) A mongrel, as a cross between the mastiff and hound.
Limmer (n.) A low, base fellow; also, a prostitute.
Limmer (n.) A man rope at the side of a ladder.
Limned (imp. & p. p.) of Limn
Limning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Limn