different between limbed vs limbec

English

Etymology

From Middle English ilimed (“having limbs, limbed”) [and other forms], from i- (prefix forming adjectives, past participles, etc.) + lim (“organ or part of the body, member; extremity of an animal or human body, limb; sexual organ; a person as a member of the group of all Christians; follower; liegeman; corner of a siege tower; arm of the sea; branch of a subject”) (see further at lim) + -ed (suffix forming adjectives); analysable as limb +? -ed.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /l?md/

Adjective

limbed (not comparable)

1. Having limbs.
2. Preceded by a descriptive word: having limbs of a specified kind or quality.

Derived terms

• clean-limbed

Translations

Verb

limbed

1. simple past tense and past participle of limb

References

Anagrams

• Lib Dem, delimb, dimble

English

Etymology

See alembic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?mb?k/

Verb

limbec (third-person singular simple present limbecs, present participle limbecking, simple past and past participle limbecked)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To distill.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Dryden to this entry?)

   • c. 1627, John Donne, A Nocturnal upon St. Lucie's Day, being the shortest day

     I, by Love's limbec, am the grave / Of all that's nothing.

Noun

limbec (plural limbecs)

1. An alembic; a still.
   • c. 1606, William Shakespeare, Macbeth

     the warder of the brain / Shall be a fume, and the receipt of reason / A limbec only.

Anagrams

• emblic