Limbus

Noun

lim=bus

WORDNET DICTIONARY

limbus(n = noun.body) - a border or edge of any of various body parts distinguished by color or structure;

Limbus, n. [L. limbus border, edge in limbo on the border. Cf. Limb border.].

An spiritual region where certain classes of souls were supposed to await the last judgment. [1913 Webster]
" The limbus patrum was considered as a place for the souls of good men who lived before the coming of our Savior. The limbus infantium was said to be a similar place for the souls of unbaptized infants. To these was added, in the popular belief, the limbus fatuorum, or fool's paradise, regarded as a receptacle of all vanity and nonsense." [1913 Webster]

"As far from help as Limbo is from bliss." [1913 Webster]

"A Limbo large and broad, since called
The Paradise of fools." [1913 Webster]
Hence: Any real or imaginary place of restraint or confinement; a prison; as, to put a man in limbo. [1913 Webster]
A state of waiting, or uncertainty, in which final judgment concerning the outcome of a decision is postponed, perhaps indefinitely; neglect for an indefinite time; as, the proposal was left in limbo while opponents and proponents refused to compromise. [PJC]
A border or margin; as, the limbus of the cornea. [1913 Webster]