Limb

Webster's Practical Dictionary- A Practical Dictionary of the Englih Language · 1884 · p. 239

lim, n. (Astron.) The border of the disk of a heavenly body, esp. of the sun and moon; edge of a graduated circle in an instrument. — Lim'bo, n. (Scholastic Theol.) A region bordering on hell. A; place of confinement. — Limber, of apn. See under Limb.