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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Gibbous \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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
gibbous
adj : (used of the moon) more than half full [syn: {gibbose}]
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