\Lim"bo\ (l[i^]m"b[-o]), Limbus \Lim"bus\ (-b[u^]s), n.
[L. limbus border, edge, in limbo on the border. Cf. {Limb}
border.]
1. (Scholastic Theol.) An extramundane region where certain
   classes of souls were supposed to await the judgment.
         As far from help as Limbo is from bliss. --Shak.
         A Limbo large and broad, since called The Paradise
         of fools.                             --Milton.
Note: 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.
2. Hence: Any real or imaginary place of restraint or
   confinement; a prison; as, to put a man in limbo.
3. (Anat.) A border or margin; as, the limbus of the cornea.