limb
/lɪm/ noun C2- The apparent visual edge of a celestial body. · the solar limb
- The graduated edge of a circle or arc.
- The border or upper spreading part of a monopetalous corolla, or of a petal or sepal; blade.
Plural limbs
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My broken limb should excite your pity.
The unfortunate creature’s tongue seemed hardly to have been moistened in it before it gave a convulsive shiver in every limb, and lay as rigid and lifeless as if it had been struck by lightning.
“I’d let myself be torn limb from limb if it would do you any good.
The two men remained opposite one another, Morrel trembling in every limb, the stranger gazing at him with an air of profound pity.
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