Definition of Limby

1. having many large branches [adj LIMBIER, LIMBIEST]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Limby

limbs of bony semicircular canals
limbus
limbus acetabuli
limbus alveolaris
limbus corneae
limbus fossae ovalis
limbus laminae spiralis osseae
limbus membranae tympani
limbus of bony spiral lamina
limbus of cornea
limbus of tympanic membrane
limbus palpebrales anteriores
limbus penicillatus
limbus striatus
limbuses
limby (current term)
lime-green
lime-twig
lime-twigged
lime hydrate
lime juice
lime juices
lime mortar
lime rickey
lime sulfur
lime tree
lime water
limeade
limeades

Literary usage of Limby

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New York Coach-maker's Magazine by Ezra M. Stratton, George Washington Wright Houghton (1859)
"limby LUMPY was the only son of his mamma. His father was called the ... So limby grew bigger and bigger every day, till at last he could scarcely draw his ..."

2. Sargent's School Monthly, for Home and School Use by Epes Sargent (1859)
"His mamma attempted to give him the castor-oil; but limby, ... limby, however, took care that no spoon should go into his mouth ; and when the nurse tried ..."

3. The Naval Chronicle edited by James Stanier Clarke, Stephen Jones, John Jones (1801)
"After staying a week or more at limby, and having with some difficulty collected what he could provide for the remaining part of his voyage to Amboyna, ..."

4. Practical Forestry in the Pacific Northwest: Protecting Existing Forests and by Edward Tyson Allen (1911)
"... able to withstand the pruning influences and remain limby, while the smaller ones, being pushed in height growth to reach sufficient light for survival, ..."

5. Reforestation in Massachusetts by Massachusetts State Forester, James Raymond Simmons, Frank William Rane (1914)
"for damage is just as prevalent in grass covered areas, as was shown by Carter, such as pastures where limby pasture pines have been cut down to give the ..."

6. White Earth Reservation. No. 1[-49] Hearings Before the Committee on (1911)
"It is, nevertheless, a well-established fact, I think, that the timber on the reservation was what we called "limby timber." Mi-. GRAHAM. ..."

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