Extremity

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun The utmost point; highest degree; most aggravated or intense form.

II. Extremity ·noun One of locomotive appendages of an animal; a limb; a leg or an arm of man.

III. Extremity ·noun The highest degree of inconvenience, pain, or suffering; greatest need or peril; extreme need; necessity.

IV. Extremity ·noun The extreme part; the utmost limit; the farthest or remotest point or part; as, the extremities of a country.