Definition of Gibbaus

Gib"bous (?), a. [Cf. F. gibbeux. See Gibbose.]

1. 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.

Wiseman.

2. Hunched; hump-backed. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

-- Gib"bous*ly, adv. -- Gib"bous*ness, n.

- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

- The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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