The accurate touch of the edge of a celestial body to the horizon.
·vt To supply with limbs. II. Limb ·noun A border or edge, in certain special uses. III. Limb ·nou...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
The graduated arc of an astronomical or surveying instrument. In astronomy, it is the edge or border...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·adj Touching; touching at a single point. II. Tangent ·adj meeting a curve or surface at a point a...
A right line raised perpendicularly on the extremity of a radius, touching the circle without cuttin...
a taylor. N. ...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
a man addicted to any thing is called "a limb for it." Norf. and Suff. ...
·add. ·- A tension spoke of a bicycle or similar wheel, secured tangentially to the hub. ...
·add. ·- A wheel with tangent spokes. II. Tangent wheel ·add. ·- A worm or worm wheel; a tangent sc...
Fitted to the breech of a gun for admeasuring its elevation; it is a sliding pillar marked with degr...
A screw acting tangentially to a circle, by means of which a slow motion may be given to the vernier...
An inferior or pettyfogging attorney. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
Going in a hurry, or in a testy humour. ...