Index of English words, starting with "li"

(1) - Liman (n.) The deposit of slime at the mouth of a river; slime.

(1) - Limb (n.) The graduated margin of an arc or circle, in an instrument for measuring angles.
(2) - Limb (n.) The border or edge of the disk of a heavenly body, especially of the sun and moon.
(3) - Limb (n.) The border or upper spreading part of a monopetalous corolla, or of a petal, or sepal; blade.
(4) - Limb (n.) A border or edge, in certain special uses.
(5) - Limb (v. t.) To dismember; to tear off the limbs of.
(6) - Limb (v. t.) To supply with limbs.
(7) - Limb (n.) An elementary piece of the mechanism of a lock.
(8) - Limb (n.) A thing or person regarded as a part or member of, or attachment to, something else.
(9) - Limb (n.) An arm or a leg of a human being; a leg, arm, or wing of an animal.
(10) - Limb (n.) A part of a tree which extends from the trunk and separates into branches and twigs; a large branch.

(1) - Limbate (a.) Bordered, as when one color is surrounded by an edging of another.

(1) - Limbed (a.) Having limbs; -- much used in composition; as, large-limbed; short-limbed.