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numb(1) (iou) and De Dion Axle - Motor Sports (gambling)


numb(1) (iou)



numb adjective. LME.
[from num pa. pple of NIM verb. For parasitic b cf. thumb. Cf. BENUMB.]
Deprived of feeling or the power of movement, esp. through extreme cold; incapable of sensation (lit. & fig.); (of a quality etc.) resulting from or characteristic of such deprivation. LME.
A. Paton His feet were cold and numb. P. G. Wodehouse Steve's faculties were rapidly becoming numb. S. Kitzinger She may be numb with shock.
Causing numbness. rare (Shakes.). Only in L16.
Shakespeare Richard III He..did give himself, All thin and naked, to the numb cold night.
Special collocations & comb.: numb fish the electric ray or torpedo. numb hand arch. slang an inexpert and clumsy person. numbhead US colloq. [after numskull] a numskull, a blockhead. numbheaded adjective resembling a numskull, blockheaded. numb palsy paralysis.
numbly adverb L16.
numbness noun L16.
numby adjective (rare) numbed; somewhat numb: E17.

De Dion Axle - Motor Sports (gambling)


The nineteenth-century axle principle of Count de Dion. The wheels tied by a transverse tube curved to clear the final drive unit rigidly mounted to the car' s chassis frame. Drive to the wheels is by universally jointed half shafts. The tube moves vertically on a slide to allow the wheels to rise and fall independently. General use was dropped in 1914, but still is used on many Sports and racing cars.