from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
gibbousness
n 1: something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects
from its surroundings; "the gun in his pocket made an
obvious bulge"; "the hump of a camel"; "he stood on the
rocky prominence"; "the occipital protuberance was well
developed"; "the bony excrescence between its horns" [syn:
{bulge}, {bump}, {hump}, {swelling}, {gibbosity},
{gibbousness}, {jut}, {prominence}, {protuberance},
{protrusion}, {extrusion}, {excrescence}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Gibbous \Gib"bous\, a. [Cf. F. gibbeux. See {Gibbose}.]
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1. Swelling by a regular curve or surface; protuberant;
convex; as, the moon is gibbous between the half-moon and
the full moon.
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The bones will rise, and make a gibbous member.
--Wiseman.
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2. Hunched; hump-backed. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne. --
{Gib"bous*ly}, adv. -- {Gib"bous*ness}, n.
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