Synonyms:
extremity, appendage, member
Meaning: an external body part that projects from the body; "it is important to keep the extremities warm"
Usage examples
This we will, we must, resist to the direst extremity.
Gertrude, I learned, had watched all night beside me, in an extremity of anxiety about me.
I made my soul familiar With her extremity, That at the last it should not be A novel agony,
For one instant the party upon the stairs remained motionless, through extremity of terror and of awe.
These violent dissensions brought matters to extremity, and pushed the Independents to the execution of their designs.
The faint sound of Thornton's voice came to them, and though they could not make out the words of it, they knew that he was in his extremity.
While we gazed in the extremity of astonishment, he passed, rapidly, several turns of a three-inch rope, first around the box and then around his body.
The boats and baggage were carried over this "portage," and the troops proceeded to the other extremity of the lake, where they disembarked and encamped.
At eight o'clock in the evening they brought up in a small bay at the eastern extremity of Western Port, glad to get ashore and stretch their weary limbs.
When lying on my back, I opened my eyes and saw a bright sparkling point of light at the extremity of the gigantic tube 3,000 feet long, now a vast telescope.