Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for LIM'BO, or LIM'BUS
LIM'BO, or LIM'BUS, n. [L. limbus.]
- A region bordering on hell, or hell itself. – Shak. Among Romanists, a place where the souls of persons are lodged after death.
- A place of restraint. Dryden.
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