Hypertext Webster Gateway: "bib"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Bib \Bib\, n. [From {Bib}, v., because the bib receives the
drink that the child slavers from the mouth.]
1. A small piece of cloth worn by children over the breast,
to protect the clothes.
2. (Zo["o]l.) An arctic fish ({Gadus luscus}), allied to the
cod; -- called also {pout} and {whiting pout}.
3. A bibcock.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Bib \Bib\, Bibbe \Bibbe\, v. t. [L. bibere. See {Beverage}, and
cf. {Imbibe}.]
To drink; to tipple. [Obs.]
This miller hath . . . bibbed ale. --Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Bib \Bib\, v. i.
To drink; to sip; to tipple.
He was constantly bibbing. --Locke.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
bib
n 1: top part of an apron; covering the chest
2: a napkin tied under the chin a child while eating
v : drink moderately but regularly [syn: {tipple}]
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