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LIMB . (I) (In O. Eng. Lim, cognate with the O. Nor. and Icel. limr, Swed. and Dan. Lem; probably the word is to be referred to a root li- seen in an obsolete English word " lith," a limb, and in the Ger. Glied), originally any portion or member of the body , but now restricted in meaning to the external members of the body of an animal apart from the head and trunk, the legs and arms, or, in a bird, the wings. It is sometimes used of the lower limbs only, and is synonymous with " leg." The word is also used of the main branches of a tree, of the projecting spurs of a range of mountains, of the arms of a cross , &c. As a translation of the Lat. membrum, and with special reference to the church See Also: - CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
as the " body of Christ," " limb " was frequently used by ecclesiastical writers of the 16th and 17th centuries of a person as being a component part of the church See Also: - CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
; cf. such expressions
" limb of Satan," "limb of the law," &c. From the use of membrum in medieval Latin for an estate dependent on another, the name " limb" is given to an outlying portion of another, or to the surbordinate members of the Cinque Ports, attached to one of the principal towns; Pevensey was thus a "limb " of Hastings. (2) An edge or border, frequently used in scientific language for the boundary of a surface. It is thus used of the edge of the disk of the sun or moon, of the expanded part of a petal or sepal in botany, &c. This word is a shortened form of " limbo " or " limbus," Lat. for an edge, for the theological use of which see LIMB US.
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