Vocabulary : Liman to Limber

Liman : The deposit of slime at the mouth of a river; slime.
Limation : The act of filing or polishing.
Limature : The act of filing. ;; That which is filed off; filings.
Limax : 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 : A part of a tree which extends from the trunk and separates into branches and twigs; a large branch. ;; An arm or a leg of a human being; a leg, arm, or wing of an animal. ;; A thing or person regarded as a part or member of, or attachment to, something else. ;; An elementary piece of the mechanism of a lock. ;; To supply with limbs. ;; To dismember; to tear off the limbs of. ;; A border or edge, in certain special uses. ;; The border or upper spreading part of a monopetalous corolla, or of a petal, or sepal; blade. ;; The border or edge of the disk of a heavenly body, especially of the sun and moon. ;; The graduated margin of an arc or circle, in an instrument for measuring angles.
Limbat : 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 : Bordered, as when one color is surrounded by an edging of another.
Limbec : An alembic; a still. ;; To distill.
Limbed : Having limbs; -- much used in composition; as, large-limbed; short-limbed.
Limber : The shafts or thills of a wagon or carriage. ;; 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. ;; Gutters or conduits on each side of the keelson to afford a passage for water to the pump well. ;; To attach to the limber; as, to limber a gun. ;; Easily bent; flexible; pliant; yielding. ;; To cause to become limber; to make flexible or pliant.
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