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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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  1. a. Swelling by a regular curve or surface; protuberant; convex; as, the moon is gibbous between the moon">half-moon and the full moon.
  2. a. Hunched; hump-backed.
  3. adj. characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column
  4. adj. (used of the moon) more than half full
  5. 1. Swelling by a regular curve or surface; protuberant; convex; as, the moon is gibbous between the moon">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.
  6. j:100 s. (used of the moon) more than half full