GIBBOUS

gibbous. Gibbous, [g hard] a. protuberant, swelled

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Gib″bous (?), a. [[Cf. F. gibbeux. See Gibbose.]] 1. 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. 2. Hunched; hump-backed. Sir T. Browne.
— Gib″bous‐ly, adv. — Gib″bous‐ness, n.