About The Word Gibbous
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Gibbous
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What's The Definition Of Gibbous?
[adj] (used of the moon) more than half full
[adj] characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column Synonyms | Synonyms for Gibbous: bulging | convex | crookback | crookbacked | gibbose | humpbacked | humped | hunchback | hunchbacked | kyphotic | unfit Related Terms | Find terms related to Gibbous: arched | arciform | arclike | arcual | bandy | bowed | bowlike | bunchbacked | camelback | concave | convex | convexed | crookbacked | embowed | excurvate | excurvated | excurved | gibbose | humpbacked | humped | humpy | hunchbacked | hunched | hunchy | kyphotic | out-bowed | oxbow | rotund | vaulted See Also | Gibbous In Webster's Dictionary \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.
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