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Gibbous adj.

Swelling by a regular curve or surface; protuberant; convex; as, the moon is gibbous between the half-moon and the full moon. "The bones will rise, and make a gibbous member."

Hunched; hump-backed. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Gibbous'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Gibbous" Quotes from Famous Books

... For his fierce bugler horning onset, whom A truncheon-battered helmet caps . . . The creature is of earnest mien To plead a sorrow darker than the tomb. His Harp and Triangle, in tone subdued, He names; they are a rayless red and white; The dawn-hued libertine, the gibbous prude. And, if we recognize his Tambourine, He asks; exhausted names her: she has become A globe in cupolas; the blowziest queen Of overflowing dome on dome; Redundancy contending with the tight, Leaping the dam! He fondly calls, ...

— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... it was when I drifted back toward the shore of consciousness, I cannot tell. But the student-lamp on the table had burned out, and the light of the gibbous moon was creeping in through the open windows. Slowly the pale illumination crept up the eastern wall, like a tide rising as the moon declined. Now it reached the mantel-shelf and overflowed the bronze heads of Homer ...

— The Ruling Passion • Henry van Dyke

Words linked to "Gibbous" : bulging, convex, crookbacked, gibbose, gibbosity, unfit, humpbacked