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§96; §101; §202; §344; §562;
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any organ or part of the body
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  • Behófað þæt heáfod þǽra óðera lima, swá swá ðá lima behó;fiað þæs heáfdes. Gif án lim bið untrum, ealle ðá óðre þrowiað mid þám ánum. Hml. Th. i. 274, 7-9.

  • Leoma lífgedál,

      Gú. 1019.

  • Hé (

    the Phenix)

    of æscan onwæcneð leomum geþungen,
      Ph. 649.

  • Is áwriten ðæt hé bícne mid ðǽm eágum, and sprece mid ðǽm fingrum, and trit mid ðǽm fét; for ðǽm ðe innor bið se hierde þe hielt ðá leomu (limu, v. l.) útan

    (interior est custodia, quae ordinata servat exterius membra),

      Past. 359, 5.
a part or member of an animal body distinct from the head or trunk
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  • Ne mæg se múð clypian . . . , ne eáge geseón . . . ne nán limn (lim ?

    or

    lima ?) ne déð nán ðing,
      Hml. Th. i. 160, 10.

  • Þá geongan leomu, líffæstan leoþu geloden weorðað,

      Vy. 5.

  • Seldum ǽfre þæs fugeles leomu licgað,

      Sal. 270.

  • Bið se líchama þeónde on strangum breóste, on fullum limum and hálum,

      Hml. Th. i. 614, 12.

  • Hé leomum onféng and líchoman,

      Cri. 628. II a.
    = gecynd-lim :-- Se wǽta ðára innoða ástígð tó ðǽm lime humor viscerum ad virilia labitur, Past. 73, 10. II b.

    the leg

    :-- Hé gebæd nine tó Gode gebígedum limum,
      Hml. S. 35. 623.
fig. of persons.
a member of the church, Christ's body,
a subordinate where Christ is the head
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  • Mec, þín lim,

      Hy. 4, 52.

  • Wé ðe his (Christ's) liomu (limo, v. l. ) sindon membra ejus, Past. 33, ii. ée (the angels) ymb bíne

    (Christ)

    hófan, leomu ymb leófne, lofsonga word,
      Sat. 155.
  • Ðá gódan láreówas nó ðæt án wilniað sécean ðæt hálige heáfoð ðære gesomnunge, ðæt is Dryhten, ac wiln[i]að ðæt hié ofdúne ástígen tó his limum. Past. 101, 24.

  • Críst is crístenra heáfod, and ealle Crístene men syndon tó Crístes limum getealde,

      Wlfst. 37, 7.
a limb of Satan
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  • Þeáh hine deófol mid his lymum wylle gedreccan,

      Angl. viii. 324, 19.
not referring to animals.
part of a tree, a branch, Gn. Ex. 26 : B. 97 (
in Dict.).
a member of a sentence
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  • Tódál comma, lim cola. An. Ox. 18 b, 10.

  • Lim cola, limes dǽl

    commata,

      26, l, 2.

  • Mid lime (lima, MS. ) ł tódala

    colopho,

    131.

  • Lime

    colo,

      7, 196.Þur[h
    ] lim, 2850.
  • Þurh lim and tódál per cola, i. membra et commata,
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Bosworth, Joseph. “lim.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/54674.

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