Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An obsolete form of limb.
  • noun See lime.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete A dog held in a leam; a bloodhound; a limehound.

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Examples

  • Ai gotted teh eggstra large splort-containing CHRG w/DOI and a hyooge glob uv duckie tayp JUST fur dis sart uv emergeensee….. but Ai did nawt gettid it inna kewl kolor lyke lym greens…. but Ai is prepeared…. wayt, huh, wut? sumwun sed it wuz sayf naow….

    4 mochas - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • Through his mother, O-lym´pi-as, Alexander was a descendant of Achilles, the well-known hero of the Trojan War.

    The Story of the Greeks 1894

  • It was therefore usual to say that such and such a thing happened in the first, second, or third year of the fifth, tenth, or seventieth O-lym´pi-ad, as the case might be.

    The Story of the Greeks 1894

  • For the last word Hanmer substituted 'lym,' which was the

    A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles Sidney Lee 1892

  • 'The doctor thinks your poor papa has a lym -- lym --'

    The Golden Calf 1875

  • The accelerated approval of the drug clofarabine to treat relapsed or refractory pediatric acute lym ...

    THE MEDICAL NEWS Editors 2010

  • The accelerated approval of the drug clofarabine to treat relapsed or refractory pediatric acute lym ...

    THE MEDICAL NEWS 2009

  • Slide 16: C y t o t o x ic T c e ll  T lym ph oc yte s th a t e lim ina te infe c te d b ody c e lls a nd tum or c e lls

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2008

  • *sits down wif a corona an lym, and starts noming Pork Skratchins*

    Oh Noes - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • A LARGE cart - horfe, ten years old, having the lym - phatic gland on the right fide much obftructed, hard, and. in* fenfible, the membrane ulcerated, with a difcharge of yellowish and feet id. matter, was put upon the following courfe r i ft, The animal was reduced to bran and white water for - food; and was bled twice in the fpace f two days.

    Sporting Magazine 1796

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