Hypertext Webster Gateway: "gibbous"
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) 1.7 (wn)
gibbous
adj 1: characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality
of the vertebral column [syn: {crookback}, {crookbacked},
{humped}, {humpbacked}, {hunchback}, {hunchbacked}, {kyphotic}]
2: (used of the moon) more than half full [syn: {gibbose}]
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