limbless ( b silent)

[Eng. limb; -le .] Destitute of or without limbs. "This poor bleeding limble trunk, which gladly I would divide among them." Mas singer: Renegado, iv. 1. lim-bo, s. [Properly the ablative of Lat. limbus =edge, border, the full phrase being in limbo patrum : Ital. limbo .] [LIMBUS.] 1. Any place of misery; hell. "Oh, what a sympathy of woe is this? As far from help as limbo is from bli !" Shakesp.: Titus Andronicus, iii. 1. 2. A prison; a place of confinement. ( Slang .) 3. The same as LIMBUS (q. v.). "As to the condition of the soul between death and the resurrection, Islâm has no authoritative teaching; the general opinion is that there is a limbo somewhere or other in which the spirits of the good repose, while those of the wicked are imprisoned elsewhere in a foul dungeon to await their doom."-Palmer: The Qur'ân , i. lxxi. Limbo of Infants, s. The English rendering of Limbus Infantium (q.v.). "The existence of the Limbo of Infants has never been defined by the Church."-Addis & Arnold: Cath. Dict., p. 519. Limbo of the Fathers, s. The English render ing of Limbus Patrum (q. v.). "Estius thinks it was to the spirits in the Limbo of the Fathers, as well as to those in Purgatory, that Christ preached."- Addis & Arnold : Cath. Dict ., p. 518.